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- This rare color film is from the year after our first "year in classical music." This was the London that Holst, Bax, Finzi, Vaughan Williams, and Bridge knew, and more or less the same London that Janáček had visited in ’26.
Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927
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British Film Institute unearthed this striking time capsule of a film.