Films About Benjamin Britton

Tony palmer's prolific work includes not one or two, but three films about british composer benjamin britton. Briton had always resisted having a film made about him at home. He didn't mind being filmed in a concert - no way was anybody going to get anywhere near his home. The very first film i made, i actually inherited. I worked with my boss, humphrey burton, who was biographerof leonard burnstein,. He and i were developing a film about ben Benjamin briton. 19 67 was the opening of the big new concert hall, which is now one of the great concert halls of the world. And then we were