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Percy Faith - Off the Record

Item number (ISN):

81095

Series title:

Music Canada

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

81095

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTO

Accession:

1986-0810

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1966-11-02

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

director/producer, Norman Campbell; script, Stan Daniels; choregraphy, Grant Strate; narration, Elwood Glover

Cast credit:

Percy Faith, Shirley Harmer, Martine van Hamel, Kristina Sealander, Gunter Pick

Description:

This is a profile of expatriate Canadian composer-arranger-conductor Percy Faith, who performs with his orchestra. Elwood Glover interviews Faith about his long career and methods of working. Faith conducts the orchestra in a selection of music arranged by him, including This Train, Temptation, Camelot March, Fiddler on the Roof, the theme from A Summer Place, Are You There?, Yesterday, Keystone Caper and Mexican Hat Dance, as well as a new version of O Canada. The special also features the orchestra playing hit songs by performers who used his arrangements, such as Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney and Sarah Vaughan. A chorus and the orchestra perform Good King Wenceslas. Shirley Harmer sings Embraceable You and Maybe September. Martine van Hamel dances to Celia's Waltz, composed by Faith as background music for the TV series THE VIRGINIAN. Kristina Sealander and Gunter Pick dance to a Faith arrangement of Younger Than Springtime. <1h>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Celia's waltz was presented in colour.~2. Description is taken from the article "Percy Faith Profile" in CBC Times, 29 October-4 November 1966, p. 5.

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Vault ISN:

213864

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9305-0061
9305-0062

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DNRORG 12196
DNRORG 12197

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

243996

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8614-2477
8614-2478

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

KINE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

244000

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8614-2482
8614-2483

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

KINE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1185808

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9305-0061.WAV
9305-0062.WAV

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

65:30

Made from:

9305-0061
9305-0062

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

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