John Barry news archives.
Aled Jones and Russell Watson have released the official video for their single ‘Where Have All The Flowers Gone/Here’s To The Heroes’
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are to release Robin and Marian on Blu-ray on 20 Nov 2018
107 min.
SpecialFeatures: Theatrical Trailer,
AspectRatio: 16 X 9, ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.85:1
Region A
No subtitles
The Scarlet Letter is to be released on Blu-Ray on 2 Jan 2019.
KL Studio Classics, 2.35:1, 135 mins, Region A (Anamorphic, NTSC).
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In a few days time, our book "Hit and Miss: The Story of The John Barry Seven" will be published and available.
"Quartet Records and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer present a remastered, remixed, slightly expanded edition of this masterful John Barry noir score for the thriller Masquerade. The 1988 film was directed by Bob Swaim and starred Rob Lowe, Meg Tilly, Kim Cattrall and Doug Davant."
Book and Lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER
Music by JOHN BARRY
Based on the book "Lolita" Vladimir Nabokov
FEBRUARY 23 - MARCH 3, 2019
Based on the 1955 novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita, My Love, which originally closed in Boston in 1971, closely follows the legendary novel: a college professor named Humbert Humbert becomes fascinated by and starts to seduce his landlady's young daughter, Dolores "Lolita" Haze. The fascination quickly turns into obsession, and soon a whirlwind race across the US begins. ”For this Mufti presentation, Erik Haagensen (Darling of the Day and The Day Before Spring in Mufti) has created a new script, edited together from Lerner’s assorted drafts, each vastly different from the others. Haagensen has stated that “Now audiences will have a chance to hear [Lolita] on stage and decide for themselves what they think of this unquestionably daring musical that begins as a black comedy and ends in tragedy.” Nabokov himself has said “Mr. Lerner is most talented and an excellent classicist. If you have to make a musical of ‘Lolita,’ he is the man to do it”.
For many years John Barry fans had been misled into thinking he had composed the theme that accompanied the Black Magic series of commercials - ‘Who Knows the Secret of the Black Magic Box’. These had a theme, which most people remember – maybe because it ran the longest or because it was possibly the last specially composed theme for these commercials - shown when people actually watched them rather than fast-forwarded or muted them!
19 Nov 2018
Limited Blu-ray Edition (World Blu-ray premiere) See Blu-Ray page...
Columbia S BPG 62402
Format: 1LP 180g 33rpm / standard sleeve
Manufacturer: Speakers Corner
Original label: Columbia
Release Date: 2018-06-15
Status: New release, in stock
Royal Albert Hall
Wednesday 19 September 2018
Starts: 7:30pm
Presented by Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace). Over fifty years of timeless James Bond themes from all your favourite 007 films.
Hits from Goldfinger, Licence to Kill, Casino Royale, Skyfall, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, Spectre, From Russia with Love to name just a few, all sung by outstanding vocalists Alison Jiear and Matthew Ford.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Gareth Hudson Conductor
Alison Jiear Vocalist
Matthew Ford Vocalist
Buxton Opera House
Water street,
Buxton, Derbyshire, sk17 6xn
Sun 12 Aug
7:30pm
The popular Q The Music Show brings its James Bond Concert Spectacular to Buxton Opera House.
The 13-piece band will be bringing the fabulous and iconic music of James Bond to you in a stunning concert. This show has been a huge success all around the world with its energetic and exciting performance by some of the UK’s leading musicians.
Featuring all the songs from the 007 movies, you can hear the greats like Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Skyfall, Thunderball, Live And Let Die, Goldeneye and Licence To Kill amongst all the others. With top musicians and an informative and highly amusing compere, this show has everything you could want for a fabulous night out – and one that you will be talking about for years to come. Formed in 2004, Q The Music Show have established a worldwide reputation for their authentic covers, orchestral sound and fabulous hair-raising vocalists. The show has been popular abroad at events in Monte Carlo, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Guernsey, Prague and many others.
The Quiller Memorandum is showing at NFT2 at BFI SouthBank.....
21st July 2040
30th July 1820
On the BFI Website
02079283232
UK-USA 1966
Dir Michael Anderson
With George Segal, Senta Berger, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow
102min
Digital
Certificate PG
An excellent George Segal plays Quiller, a secret agent dispatched to Berlin to uncover a neo-Nazi movement. Based on a thriller by Adam Hall (aka Elleston Trevor), Pinter’s screenplay transforms the hero from a Bond-like superman to an obdurate professional, and heightens the political resonance of a story about a man caught between the insidious banality of the neo-Nazis and the manipulative coldness of British spymasters.
http://www.erikhoeppe.de/orgel/orgel_basis_index.html
Erik is an organist who plays The James Bond Theme, Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, A View To A Kill and other James Bond Songs (From Russia With Love, Live and Let Die, For Your Eyes Only, Licence To Kill, GoldenEye [his favourite title], Tomorrow Never Dies, Writings On The Wall, plus Casino Royale [Herb Alpert] as encore) on church organs.
His programme is called “georgelt, not geruehrt” (= organ-ed, not stirred)
These versions sound at least a little bit unconversant in the beginning but after some time the songs sound quite complex.
A James Bond quiz takes place in the intermission of his programme. Prize for every right answer: a voucher for a Wodka Martini redeemable after the concert.
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