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Carols for Christmas

Title: Carols for Christmas [videorecording] / Robin Scott, The National Video Corporation in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Office of Film and Television.
Publication: Chicago : Films Inc., 1985.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Moving image	By appointment only	VTH 715 C	Offsite

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Description

1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

This tape combines the visual and performing arts to celebrate the holiday season. Masterpieces from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art provide varied images of the story of Christmas; the Royal College of Music Chamber Choir sings traditional carols in the medieval setting of St. Edmundsbury Cathedral. The program features religious paintings by Raphael, Bellini, El Greco and Manet, the 14th-century French manuscript the Belles Heures of Jean, Duc de Berry, as well as nineteenth-century illustrations by artists of the Wiener Werkstätte and by the American printmakers Currier and Ives.

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Credits (note)

Director, Christopher Swann; conductor, Sir David Willcocks.

Title

Carols for Christmas [videorecording] / Robin Scott, The National Video Corporation in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Office of Film and Television.

Imprint

Chicago : Films Inc., 1985.

Credits

Director, Christopher Swann; conductor, Sir David Willcocks.

Performer

Aled Jones, Gerald Finley, Royal College of Music Chamber Choir, Farnaby Brass Ensemble.

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Swann, Christopher. Director

Willcocks, David, 1919-2015. Conductor

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Branch Call Number

VTH 715 C

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