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Tony Palmer: All You Need Is Love. Vol. 2: I Can Hypnotise 'Dis Nation - Ragtime
2 DVD
195.4 руб
Биография
Режисёр: Тони Палмер
В ролях: Юби Блейк, Ирвинг Берлин, Моника Мейсон, Руди Блеш, Терри Уолдо
Описание: "A mighty achievement. Thank you." John Lennon "...This is a priceless education - and euphoric brilliance - worth every penny..." John M. James, Positively Yeah Yeah Thanks to the hit movie, "The Sting", everyone reckons they know about Ragtime. But do they? This episode includes the oldest known piece of film (1898) showing what the Cakewalk was really like. Also extracts from The Royal Ballet production based on Scott Joplin's music, "Elite Syncopations". Also extracts staged by the Houston Grand Opera of Joplin's only surviving opera, "Treemonisha". There is also rare early film of Irving Berlin (Alexander's Ragtime Band) as well as film of Joplin's birthplace and of the madhouse where he died. Although reference is made to other early ragtime composers, this episode is essentially the story of Scott Joplin - an extraordinary tragedy of failure, frustration, pride, of the black man's struggle to achieve for himself a proper...
Год выпуска: 2011