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The WPO presents our spring Concert.Leonard Bernstein wrote only one film score, but that film was one of the most powerful of the 1950s, Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront, a powerful story of corruption and politics which launched the career of Marlon Brando. When Arthur Bliss was commissioned to write for the Three Choirs Festival, his chance opening of a book on heraldry gave him the impetus for a dramatic symphony with each movement taking the character associated with one of the heraldic colours. The commission was prompted by Edward Elgar whose In The South marks an Italian holiday.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St John's Waterloo, St John's Churchyard Garden, Southbank Centre, London, SE1 8, United Kingdom,London, United Kingdom
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