![]() ![]() The visual imagination could be very free because scenes could be conjured up in the mind's eye. ![]() Even a simple sound track combined with incidental music could be extremely evocative. In the nineteen forties and fifties, before the days of TV, BBC radio plays such as "The Man born to be King" were thrilling. It is based on one of the famous short stories about the American civil war written in the late 19th century by Ambrose Bierce. Later that year it won a special mention in the Italia Prize. This one act Opera written as an opera for radio, was commissioned by the BBC and was first performed by the London Sinfonietta with the composer conducting in a BBC studio performance in September 1982. As the noose tightens round his neck he fantasises about his escape down-river and back to his wife and home. An Alabama planter is captured and executed by Confederate soldiers after attempting to sabotage the Yankee advance. ![]()
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