Sentence examples for documentary about the composer from inspiring English sources
GLASS: A PORTRAIT OF PHILIP IN TWELVE PARTS Scott Hicks directed this documentary, about the composer Philip Glass.
When an Estonian television station approached producer Paul Smaczny last year with the idea of making a documentary about the composer based on the music-theatre production Pärt's Adam's Passion directed by Robert Wilson, a lifelong wish finally came true.
Such is the royal enthusiasm for his oeuvre that the Prince of Wales features in a documentary about the composer by film-maker John Bridcut, to be shown on BBC4 on 27 May.
The heir to the throne has made a number of broadcasts over the decades including appearing on the BBC children's programme Jackanory in 1984, reading his own book The Old Man Of Lochnagar, and in recent years making documentaries about the composer Sir Hubert Parry and royal artists.
And there was a great one which laid clips of Wagner on X Factor over Stephen Fry's documentary about Wagner, the composer.
I'd wanted to write about a documentary filmmaker for years, but it was the unlikely conjunction of seeing a documentary about the Estonian composer Arvo Párt and reading about the ferry disaster in William Langewiesche's, "The Outlaw Sea" that set me off.
There was also The South Bank Show at its height – passionate about performing, making major documentaries about the major composers of our time.
"Obviously Amadeus on stage was never intended to be a documentary biography of the composer," he admits, "and the film was even less of one".
Sky Arts will broadcast a documentary called Nocturne, which it said explores Britten's "uneasy relationship with the wider world", while the British Film Institute will present a season of films and TV programmes about the composer.
