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Arthur Benjamin joined the ranks of some of Britain’s finest composing talent, being recruited by Muir Mathieson to write music for films in the 1930s. This illustrated talk by Australian composer and pianist Wendy Hiscocks celebrates Benjamin’s valuable contribution to British Film on the fiftieth anniversary of his death and includes excerpts from Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, Walker’s Turn of the Tide and Mathieson’s Steps of the Ballet. A large section of Conquest of Everest will also be screened.
The start-time will be 7.30 p.m.