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...this point Cameron did his usual unusual thing. He went into hibernation with a stack of legal pads, denying himself all sensory stimulation except music he deemed appropriate to the project (Gustav Holst's The Planets). He believes in junk-food diets as an aid to inspiration, "provided you don't take it past four months." Four days, fortunately, was all the time it took him to work up a treatment for Aliens that typed out at about 45 single-space pages...
...Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Working with precision and economy of gesture, Boult insisted on purely musical, never theatrical interpretations. Knighted in 1937, he premiered much modern music in Britain and was a particular champion of such contemporary English composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst. "It is our duty," he once said, "to do a little of everything modern that is worthwhile, and more than a little of everything English...
Currier House Music Society presents the Cambridge Chorale in a convert of Purcell and Holst Sunday, March 21 Fishbowl Currier House 8 p.m Reception to follow...
...smoke, the trickling blood, the bat that flies over the audience, and the fieldmouse that jumps out of Renfield's hand and scurries across the floor into the fireplace. There is fun, too, in the soundtrack: chilling animal calls in the distance, snippets of Debussy and Mahler and Holst, and a wonderfully ominous neo-Wagnerian leitmotif for tuba and timpani...
Vocal Chamber Music--Boston Chamber Soloists perform Purcell, Dering, Holst, Vaughan Williams and Briten. At First and Second Church, Berkeley St., Boston, at 8. Tickets...