Agenda: Making a Big Classical Error Over the Arts Ascending

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The music traditionally associated with New Year's Day is Strauss waltzes broadcast live from Vienna, but Channel 5 is planning to launch 2008 with something startlingly different.

O Thou Transcendent is a film about one of England's greatest artists, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, by the celebrated documentary-maker Tony Palmer. It marks the 50th anniversary of Vaughan Williams' death in 1958.

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Agenda: Making a Big Classical Error Over the Arts Ascending

Astonishingly, in these days of dumbed-down broadcasting, the film is a whopping two-and-a-half hours long. It seems that Palmer, who launched his career on the back of the 1960s pop m...

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