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| Bbc Proms | ...Rising star conductor Jonathan Nott and one of the world's top youth orchestras, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, in Ligeti's haunting Atmospheres - a work made famous by STANLEY KUBRICK's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is followed by Mahler's poignant Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children), featuring baritone Matthias Goerne, and Schoenberg's ground-breaking Five Orchestral Pieces, premiered at the Proms in 1912 by Henry Wood.... |
| Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006) | ...He introduces vocal and choral music, including two of Ligeti's Nonsense Madrigals - the serene, slowly ebbing Lux Aeterna (one of the works STANLEY KUBRICK included in the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey). Plus the Requiem, of which The Times music critic William Mann remarked after its London premiere that its effect was so compelling that he 'would gladly have forgone Beethoven's Ninth symphony after the interval'.... |
| Jon Ronson On | ...This week he talks to Jeremy Dyson, of the League of Gentlemen, who recalls his search for a missing childhood maze, philosophizes with a man who spent his life looking for the Loch Ness Monster, and meets Tony Frewin, STANLEY KUBRICK's live-in amateur sleuth who tracked down Kubrick's impersonator.... |
| Looking For Stanley | ...STANLEY KUBRICK, legendary director of `Lolita', `2001', `A Clockwork Orange' and `Full Metal Jacket', is now editing his latest picture - `Eyes Wide Shut' - for summer release. John Baxter exores the extraordinary career of this reclusive and powerful film-maker.... |