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Project Moonbase - The Historic Sound of the Future | Unusual music show I Podcast | Space cult. DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium The Multiverse, Edinburgh https://www.projectmoonbase.com/archives/9654

'The Relics of Our Ancestors' from the Festival of Britain, part of an exhibit on 'The People of Britain' convened by Jacquetta Hawkes. It aimed to show how "different breeds of ancestors have contributed to the shaping of such a rare miscellany of faces as confronts the visitor in any London bus" 🧵

Plan of 'The way to go round The People of Britain' via 'The Relics of our Ancestors', 'How They Came Here', 'How They Lived', 'Men of the Iron Age', 'The Romans in Britain', 'The Anglo-Saxons' and 'The British Today'
Municipal Dreams@municipaldreams.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1/ 🧵 The Festival of Britain opened this day in 1951 - according to its official guide a 'united act of national reassessment, and [a] corporate reaffirmation of faith in the nation’s future’.

South Bank Programme cover 1951

This Saturday (8th August) EDGEWAYS presents "Magick and Memory" with the lovely Nubicola Rex from 20:00 BST. When everyone carries a Hitchiker's Guide, what use is memory? Why should I bother to remember your name if my smart glasses will just tell me who you are?

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‘The scores for both 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘢𝘯 and 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘰 are the work of a composer who recognises that his task is to seek out the essence of the material on screen and to express that rather than himself.’ @jonathancoe.bsky.social on Hitchcock’s composer Bernard Herrmann. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Jonathan Coe · Where was the drum kit? Hitchcock’s Music

The music Bernard Herrmann wrote for The Wrong Man is diffident, sometimes almost unnoticeable. His score for Hitchcock...

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