Three American Ballads

Director Alfred Kouzel / 1953 / USA

Humorous sketches and semi &ndash: abstract drawings are used to interpret the three ballads "Acres of Clams," "Old Dan Tucker," and "John Henry" as sung by Cisco Houston.

The Variations and Fugue on the Theme of Purcell by Benjamin Britten, introduced by Dr. Malcolm Sargent and played by the London Symphony Orchestra. The young people's guide to the orchestra which analyses, instrument by instrument, the composition of a symphony orchestra.

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