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1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 35 min. 34 sec.) ; 579263824 bytes |
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At a girls' high school, music director Karen Carey prepares her young students for a concert at the Opera House. Believing in the transformative power of great music, Carey insists upon a classical repertoire, sets a dauntingly high performance standard and requires the participation of every girl in the school. Mrs Carey inspires many of her girls, but some do not share her passion and are not afraid to say so.Her greatest challenge will be firing up the unwilling, and her antagonist is 16-year-old-Iris. Waging open warfare against authority, the charismatic Iris is the focal point of student resistance to Carey's Opera House ambitions, and the only girl who gets seriously under her skin.Emily is Carey's star musician and a different sort of headache - a gifted but troubled teenager on the threshold of a brilliant musical career if only... Mrs Carey wants Emily to solo in a Bruch violin concerto, but to bring out her best, she needs to keep the girl from going off the rails, and then get inside her head. This proves no easy task, because young Emily has her own distinctive take on everything. Mrs Carey's Concert is about music making and coming of age, about talent and courage, compliance and rebellion. About those prepared to open their minds and hearts to what the world has to offer... and those yet to discover the potential within.PRODUCTION DETAILSMrs Carey's Concert was produced with the assistance of Screen Australia, Screen NSW, The Adelaide Film Festival and The Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Directors: Bob Connolly and Sophie Raymond. Producers: Helen Panckhurst and Bob Connolly |
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Broadcast 2011-09-18 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Choral music.
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Methodist Ladies' College (Kew, Vic.)
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Orchestral music.
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School music -- Study and teaching.
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Women conductors (Music)
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New South Wales -- Burwood.
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Streaming video
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Buckley, Hannah, cast
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Connolly, Bob, director
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Raymond, Sophie, director
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