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Genius, obsession and new beginnings- take a look at our new DVDs.
The lives of two brilliant mathematicians from India and the USA, a teenager’s determination for a better life through literacy, a newly unemployed man who enrols in a college to try and start a new life, a stifled Oxford academic’s … Continue reading
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Tagged academics, Bideford, Brazil, Cambridge University, Cecchetto, Devon, Director, Dirk Bogarde, Duran Duran, DVDs, Europe (band), feature films, Films, G.H. Hardy, Harlem, Harold Pinter, illiteracy, Iran, Italy, John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928-2015), Joseph Losey, mathematics, Oxford University, paranoid schizophrenia, Rudyard Kipling, Sao Paulo, Srinavasa Ramanujan, symphonic orchestra, Trinity College Cambridge, United Services College
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Music education in feature films
Music’s place on the school curriculum can be uncertain. However it is a subject which can inspire strong passions in teachers and pupils. This is portrayed in several DVDs in the Education in Literature Collection. Music of the Heart (1999) … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue and Gold Marching Machine, Britten, choirs, choral music, David Bowie, Drama teachers, drumming, DVDs, education, England, feature films, France, French, Handel, Harlem, jazz, music, music teachers, New York High School for the Performing Arts, North Carolina A & T State University, Opus 118, orchestral music, pupils, Roberta Guaspari, Rock music, schools, Tallis, teenage musical, teenagers, The Tempest, trumpet, USA, violin, Wes Craven
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