Maddalena’s other rhythm. “One of the many interval signals that filled the gaps between TV programmes” – Brian Hodgson, Radiophonic 21.
AKA The Splendour… Phil Young provides the theme music
Continue Reading 13th May 1960 – The Grandeur That Was Rome broadcast (BBC tv)
Also known as Pictures from the Insects’ Life this play, written by Karel and Josef Čapek, was presented here with music by Maddelena Fagandini. Although it was not a great production overall this was apparently a major commission for the Workshop.
‘The most significant factor about this approach to painting and sculpture, completely free from representation, is that it provides a completely new and more dynamic relationship between the Work of art, the artist and the spectator… if it were large enough he could get into it’. (BBC Television film) “Abstract sound by: The BBC Radiophonic Workshop” […]
Continue Reading 15th August 1960 – The Artist Speaks: Victor Pasmore broadcast (BBC tv)
Also known as Time Beat, Maddalena Fagandini’s rhythm track had slightly less ‘fab’, and rather more obscure, origins.
Continue Reading 3rd October 1960 – Music for Party Political Conferences broadcast (BBC tv)
Desmond Briscoe with a fanfare for “A play in six episodes by Michael Kelly based on the book by Edwin Lester Arnold”. The book’s full title is The Wonderful Adventures of Phra The Phoenician from 1883.
Continue Reading 16th October 1960 – Children’s Hour: Phra The Phoenician broadcast (Home Service)