Carl Davis (1936-2023). Composer, conductor, consummate all-round musician and true music-maker. BAFTA and Ivor Novello Award winner. Awarded CBE (Hon) in 2005.
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From award-winning scores for film and TV through to conducting some of the biggest pieces in classical music, celebrate Carl’s illustrious career with the official ‘This Is Carl Davis’ @spotify playlist! spoti.fi/2Swns8C
We are BIG dog lovers at Carl Davis HQ as regular followers know. This feature celebrates the canine silent stars Rin Tin Tin, Teddy the Great Dane, a collie named Jean, an English pit bull named Luke and Strongheart, a German Shepherd. Read more here: yahoo.com/entertainment/rin-…
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A new restoration of the 'Apollo' version of Abel Gance's Napoleon, a 7-hour cut that screened at the Apollo Theatre in 1927, will premiere in Paris this July.
The screening will be accompanied by a new live score played by more than 250 musicians.
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Well this is very exciting! What a fabulous programme for @KenBioscope's Silent Film Weekend.
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When things around us feel a bit overwhelming music is the best tonic.
According to research, music can help people to stay motivated and manage anxiety.
We recommend listening to 'This is Carl Davis' on Spotify.
The essential tracks all on one playlist.
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Some of Cecil B Demille's set for The 10 Commandments (1923) has been buried under the sand for nearly 100 years. BBC Travel investigates the city under the sand and discovers what has happened to remnants of this epic silent film.
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The Real Charlie Chaplin was released in cinemas and digitally in February 2022.
Have you seen it?
The acclaimed documentary is available to rent on Amazon Prime.
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Happy Friday from all of us at the Carl Davis Collection and all hail the weekend!
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Did you see the @BRB production of Aladdin? #Onthisday2013 the ballet had its English premiere in Birmingham, choreographed by David Bintley. It had been a long, hard journey, beginning in 2000 in Glasgow, commissioned by Scottish Ballet.
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We're all excited to see the @HippodromeFilm program for next month's festival, which kicks off on 20 March in Bo'Ness.
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Half term? With the kids at home, here's a great way to engage them with classical music.
'My First Classical Music Album', with a host of greats including Carl conducting the Royal Liverpool Phil, is a perfect intro & might just spark something wonderful.
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Harold Lloyd and his Safety Last! leading lady Mildred Davis were married on this day in 1923 in Los Angeles. Their first appearance as a married couple was at the premiere of Safety Last! on 1 April.
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Happy Friday! Have a weekend full of happiness and, of course, music.
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Carl's score for The Great Gatsby ballet was released in February 2021.
His original music was commissioned and written for the premiere performance of Jorden Morris' production for Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre in 2019 and was later used for a revival in Orlando.
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Harold Lloyd was one of a group of actors and filmmakers who founded the Academy Awards.
Lloyd, alongside other artists including Douglas Fairbanks, Jack Warner and Cecil B. DeMille, believed that the Awards would foster respect for their industry #Silents
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The first awards ceremony was held in 1929 with two films winning the Best Picture Oscar; Wings received the award for “Outstanding Picture,” and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans was awarded the “Best Unique and Artistic Picture” prize.
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Currently enjoying that excellent television adaption of The Mayor of casterbridge made in 1978. I note the wonderfully atmospheric theme music was written by Carl Davis @CarlDavisMusic youtu.be/WZ8i2xLnzA8?si=kNW6… – at Aldridge, England
In this episode of Carl's podcast, recorded in 2020, Carl discusses the music and inspiration behind his 2019 ballet The Great Gatsby and the February 2021 CD Release of the ballet soundtrack.
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#OnThisDay 1852, The Lady of the Camellias premiered as a play in Paris.
156 years later, Carl scored the ballet.
Carl said, "(Derek Deane) asked me if I would do a ballet on the subject of the Lady of the Camellias. I got so excited that I immediately began running a fever".
Buster Keaton died #OnthisDay 1966.
Carl wrote "My silent film music guru, the late David Gill, co-producer of the ‘Hollywood’ series set me on the right path with Keaton.
He explained that he always had a project and we, in the scoring, must be at his side to help solve it.
Charlie Chaplin's City Lights was released on 30 January 1931.
The centenary of Chaplin's birth fell in 1989 so David Gill decided to add City Lights to the ever-expanding catalogue of silent films restored by the Gill-Brownlow-Davis team and to perform it live.
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He and Carl needed to find the original score, to compare it with the soundtrack which Chaplin had recorded at the time.
Carl was given access to the Chaplin vaults in Switzerland and began the painstakingly slow process of piecing together the original score.
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City Lights premiered in 1989 at The Dominion Theatre with Princess Diana in attendance.
The recording of Carl's score was re-issued in 2012.
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