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I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)

If not for World War II, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger might not have made I Know Where I’m Going! Looking to film a high-concept Technicolor feature that eventually became A Matter of Life and Death (1946; AKA Stairway to Heaven), the duo encountered trouble when they learned that almost every Technicolor camera in non-occupied Western Europe was being used to make Allied military training films. So while biding their time, they looked to film a story that Pressburger pounded out on his typewriter in four days. Originally known as The Misty Island, I Know Where I’m Going! is a poignant romance containing dollops of comedy, Scottish folklore, and traces of adventure. Aided by the misty oceanic landscapes and two subtle (but worthy) central performances, this movie from the Archers (the production company for Powell and Pressburger, but also a nickname for the two) balances its earthiness and mysticism to form an effective romantic drama.

After a narrated prologue/opening credits fast forwarding through the first twenty-five years of her life, the Mancunian woman Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) departs home to the Hebrides in order to marry industrialist Sir Robert Bellinger (voiced by Norman Shelley). Joan has never met the much older Sir Bellinger, who lives on the fictional Isle of Kiloran. A multipart journey involving trains and boats takes place – all on time, exactly as Sir Bellinger’s travel itinerary has laid out for Joan. Following a fascinating montage travel scene thanks to editor John Seabourne, Sr. (1943’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 1957’s A King in New York), Joan arrives at her final stop before the boat to Kiloran – the Isle of Mull. There, Joan finally has a delay in her travel schedule. Inclement weather for the next few days will make passage impossible. There, she meets Royal Navy officer Torquil MacNeil (Roger Livesey), who is on leave from the service. The two stay the night at a friend of Torquil’s, Catriona Potts (Pamela Brown), and her overeager Irish Wolfhounds. Joan soon learns that Torquil is the Laird of Kiloran and – with the poor conditions not improving – he gladly shows Joan many of the locals and sights. Gradually, Joan’s emotional walls crumble, leaving her making a choice unanticipated and uncharacteristic.

The colorful cast of supporting actors include C.W.R. Knight as the falconer Colonel Barnstaple, Finlay Currie as the sailor Ruairidh Mhór, George Carney as Joan’s father, Nancy Price as Mrs. Crozier, and Catherine Lacey as the busybody Mrs. Robinson. Thirteen-year-old Petula Clark is Cheril, the Robinsons’ daughter.

How in the world did Pressburger type out this screenplay (the writing credit also goes to Powell) in a few days? The Archers came into pre-production knowing what sort of story they wished to tell. Intending to carry over the anti-materialist messages from their previous film – 1944’s A Canterbury Tale – they juxtapose constantly the idea of Joan’s idea of marrying a rich husband with the poor and working-class background of the Isle of Mull’s residents. The origins of Joan’s affluent tastes, established in the opening sequence over the opening credits, are never fully explained. Is it a legacy of living in extremely class-conscious early 20th century England? Perhaps a coping mechanism or compensating for some personal shortcoming? Whatever it is, it makes Joan’s progression as a character and the climactic decisions of the film feel less believable than they should be. This is, for me, the glaring hole in an otherwise fine screenplay from the Archers. The superb performances from Hiller and Livesey almost remedy my qualms here.

And what performances they deliver. Wendy Hiller had been primarily a stage actress by the time she made a leap into the movies. The second film she made was the 1938 adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, in which she played Eliza Doolittle. She became the first British actress to receive an Academy Award acting nomination in a British movie as a result. With her stock on the rise and looking forward to working with her, Powell and Pressburger signed her up to play the female lead in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. But her second pregnancy forced her to step away from the production, leaving that role to Deborah Kerr. In I Know Where I’m Going!, Hiller has to exercise restraint for almost all of this film. As much as I criticized the on-paper believability of the Joan and Torquil’s developing relationship in the preceding paragraph, Hiller does her darndest to sell it. Her initial indifference to Scotland’s charms wears down as she contemplates her situation and begins to accept the slower pace of life far from the comfortable trappings of middle-class Manchester.

It takes a second performance to make all this work, and Roger Livesey does so ably. Livesey is no Laurence Olivier or Leslie Howard in terms of conventional handsomeness, but he terrifically complements Hiller in their moments together. Patient and kind to the Englishwoman who initially thinks little of the people and the places surrounding her, Torquil is no foil to Joan (this is not exactly an attraction of opposites), but their upbringings and views of tradition are markedly different. Livesey portrays this difference well in his vocal inflections and his bemused facial acting. Most viewers might not notice, but despite I Know Where I’m Going! being shot mostly on-location, Livesey never left London during production. Livesey was part of a play in London’s West End, and that production’s producers would not allow him to leave for Scotland to take part in the on-location shooting. So, for any exterior scenes in this film, Hiller is interacting with a body double. Look closer and you will notice that Livesey is always shot in close-up whenever the film’s narrative is outdoors.

By the time Pressburger completed the screenplay and filming began in the second half of 1944, Allied victory in Europe seemed to be drawing near. After several years of war – at times unsure whether the United Kingdom might survive the Axis onslaught – thoughts inevitably turned to what life might be like again once the guns fell silent. British social changes during wartime, whether by popular practice or by Parliamentary law, led the average British person to believe in a postwar society less class-conscious and economically fairer for all. We never see Sir Roger Bellinger in I Know Where I’m Going!, but there are implications he has profited from fueling the Allied war machine. There are other hints that Sir Bellinger is unaware of how his less wealthier neighbors act, that he is lacking the social etiquette and consciousness to interact with anybody outside his stratified circles (see: his manner of speech while speaking over the radio and his overly detailed itinerary for Joan regarding the trip from Manchester to Kiloran).

Meanwhile, the residents on the Isle of Mull are uniformly depicted as free-wheeling, fun-loving, and content with the human companionship and natural beauty – shot beautifully by cinematographer Erwin Hillier, who often was instructed by Powell to suspend shooting if the sky was too clear, and to wait until some clouds dotted the landscape – they have. The war is far from their concerns (the only explicit mention of WWII in the film might be that Torquil is on leave from the Royal Navy), almost as if it was not happening at all. The philosophies driving the violent on continental Europe and those spoken through the halls in Westminster seem as faraway as Shangri-La in Frank Capra’s Lost Horizon (1937). In place of the economics and politics of war, Gaelic dialogue, legends, and song fill the time as the isle’s residents go about their self-sufficient livelihoods.

Though, in terms of chronology, I Know Where I’m Going! takes place during WWII, it feels like the Archers’ first postbellum film. From 49th Parallel (1941) to The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp to the preceding A Canterbury Tale, the duo’s entire filmography by this point was rife with propaganda or propaganda-adjacent work (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is an exception, but it is heavily defined by three separate periods of British wartime). Taken in conjunction with Joan’s romantic second-guessing, I Know Where I’m Going! advocates for the needs of the heart from the moment Joan steps foot in Scotland. More broadly, it expresses hope that Britons can hold fast to more egalitarian principles once World War II concludes.

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Technicolor expressionism as seen in A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) was not yet in evidence. That would come only with greater artistic freedom, British audiences being able to separate their reputations from their earlier wartime work, and greater funds for those later works. The duo’s artistic vision, however, is without question in I Know Where I’m Going! The scene depicting the Corryvreckan whirlpool is stunning visual effects work (inspired by Moses’ parting of the Red Sea in Cecil B. DeMille’s original 1923 silent version of The Ten Commandments), in addition to the expressive lighting and cinematography of the exterior Scottish scenes.

On the other side of the Atlantic, I Know Where I’m Going! was no financial blockbuster, but it was a commercial and critical success in America. Some time after its release, Powell and Pressburger learned that I Know Where I’m Going! was shown to contracted writers at Paramount Pictures to exemplify, “how a perfect screenplay should be constructed.” Now, there might be no such thing as a “perfect” screenplay – and I hardly think I Know Where I’m Going! is close to that conversation if there is one – but it is certainly an inspired choice to teach screenwriters how to structure their narratives, appropriate places for narration, and how to build a relationship between two characters (which still requires some assistance from the actors).

In the years after making I Know Where I’m Going!, Powell deemed the film the “sweetest” he ever made with Pressburger. The down-to-earth humor and affection for the land and its people is always apparent, a quieter work amid the din of a war near its end. Through Joan and Torquil, the Archers express a social ideal unimaginable for many Britons even decades prior to this film’s release. Amid their many other works with war at the forefront, I Know Where I’m Going! lays bare its aspirations of life simply lived, the only sort of life worth living.

My rating: 8/10

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Basil Rathbone and Wendy Hiller in the 1947 Jed Harris production of “The Heiress” photographed by Erwin Blumenfeld for Vogue in 1947

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Jane Asher and Gawn Grainger as Juliet Capulet and Romeo in “Romeo and Juliet” presentation while being on tour in the USA, 1967. Part 2. 🩶

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Old Vic Brings First Spoken Drama to The Music Center. By Cecil Smith. Los Angeles times�� March 5th, 1967.

It seems a curious bit of scheduling to have the Bristol Old Vic in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of The Music Center, opening a three-week season of Shakespeare Tuesday night.The company is doing the first spoken drama ever performed in the new complex and it arrives on the threshold, the very eve, of the twin openings of the new theaters designed primarily for drama next month. Not that the spoken word is a stranger to the Pavilion. Some of the more interesting musical plays produced there, notably "Fiddler on the Roof," have been as dependent on their dramatic as on their musical structure. And if the Pavilion is fundamentally a music hall, still the verbal music of Shakespeare can be as stirring and compelling as any instrumental or vocal music ever devised. No one plays this music better than a British ensemble and among the great companies of England the Bristol Old Vic is considered one of the best. No less an authority than Sir Tyrone Guthrie says it is among the world's finest acting companies and that its managing director, Val May, is an immensely vital force in the English-speaking theater.

Suited the Action

Sir Tyrone suited the action to the word by staging the production of "Measure for Measure" that opens the BOV season here. May directed the production of "Hamlet" that enters the repertory Thursday and the "Romeo and Juliet" that will open next week. The three plays will rotate through March 25. The Bristol Old Vic was initially formed in 1946 as an offshoot, a sort of farm club for London's justly celebrated Old Vic. When the latter was melded into the British National Theater three years ago, the BOV became an independent entity.

It is supported by an annual grant of 40,000 pounds from the Federal Arts Council, plus a grant from the city of Bristol and its thriving box offices in two theaters-the legendary Theater Royal and its new Little Theater. But even in its days as m the outpost of the London company, the Bristol Old Vic had an individuality and a spirit all its own. I remember when the parent organization was in the Philharmonic on one of its tours some years ago, I asked John Neville, who was playing Hamlet, what his plans were after the tour, and he said he was leaving the London company to return to Bristol. I asked him why. "It's more adventurous, more experimental, more daring and," he smiled, "more fun."

Although the BOV is only doing Shakespeare on this first American tour under the sponsorship of S. Hurok, the Bard is not its primary product in England. The company is known as an innovator, launching new plays and new playwrights, trying new areas of stagecraft, new methods and new approaches. It was in the vanguard of the new wave of British drama that spawned Pinter, Shaffer, Osborne, Arden, Wesker, and others. It was the first company to produce an English version of Erwin Piscator's "War and Peace" (later staged with immense success in this country by the APA) and it first provided a stage for such plays as "A Severed Head" and "The Killing of Sister George." ⠀⠀⠀

The company has a vigorous acting school and training program that has a spawned a legendary crop of stars, among them Rosemary Harris, Peter O'Toole, Dorothy Tutin and Paul Rogers. m Although the concentration is on youth, many an established star has played at Bristol, including Wendy Hiller, Moira Shearer, Pamela Brown and Neville.

The Hamlet of the current company is one of England's brightest young stars, Richard Pasco. He's little known in this country, though he was in the movie "Room at the Top" and played Broadway with Laurence Olivier in

"The Entertainer." Pasco, who also plays the key role of Angelo in "Measure for Measure," told a Times correspondent in Bristol recently that he sees Hamlet as "a fish out of water." "He's plunked right in the middle of all this political intrigue and violence and that's what he hates most— violence," Pasco said.

He approves director May's decision to set the play in the Napoleonic era-"lots of conspiracy and blood around in those days." Pasco said his first West End job as an actor was in "Hamlet"-playing Fortinbras to the prince of Paul Scofield. He feels Scofield saw the character as "an angry young man." "Yet," said Pasco, "he's really pretty cool. He likes to think about things-in a world that likes to act. Not that he's unable to take care of himself—he learned that as a soldier. But he's a scholar who knows that violence only leads to more violence. It's not in his nature to do the things that have to be done.

That's the terrible part." Pasco was the original angry young man—he played Jimmy Porter in the English Stage Company's famous production of "Look Back in Anger" in 1956, which launched the new wave of British drama. Most of his career has been in classical repertory though he's also starred in British television and movies. He joined the Bristol Old Vic in 1964 for its first tour of Europe, which extended as far as Israel.

Famous member⠀⠀⠀

Actually, the most famous member of the current troupe is its Juliet, 20-year old Jane Asher-particularly with the miniskirt set. The fame that preceded her had nothing to do with her acting but her fan magazine reputation as the girl friend of Beatle Paul McCartney, which has brought out swarms of teenagers on the cross-country tour. In proper repertory fashion, she balances Juliet with the tiny role of Julietta in "Measure for Measure." There are other players quite celebrated in Britain among them, John Franklyn Robbins, Frank Barrie, Madge Ryan, Frank Middlemass, Gwan Granger, Barbara Leigh-Hunt. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

But as in the National Theater, the Comedie Francaise, the Moscow Art Theater, one goes to see an ensemble, not an individual. This is a new wrinkle in this country but with the success of such ensembles as the APA, ACT and others, it's gaining momentum. There's an immense sense of pride in the Bristol company and in its homebase theater, the 200-year-old Theater Royal in cred Eritain on a heater where Sarah Siddons played and Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, Jenny Lind, Henry Irving and Ellen, Terry-the ghost of Mrs. Siddons is said to stalk its stage.

Some feel it prophetic that the Blitz, which levered much of Bristol, spared the theater. Val May accompanied his players to this country and stayed with them through their highly acclaimed New York openings, then returned to Bristol to prepare his spring season, which includes such varied offerings as "The Hostage," "The Taming of the Shrew," Galsworthy's "Strife" and Pinter's "The Homecoming."

Among three new plays to be produced is one by American author Robert Rich, "Message from the Grassroots," a play about Malcolm X with an all-white cast.

Dr. Guthrie met the troupe in Philadelphia to brush up his initial staging of "Measure for Measure," that blackest of black comedies, which was much condemned in Victorian England for its outspoken attitudes on sex and morals and its cynicism. Dr. Guthrie told me later he was quite pleased with the production and it was greeted in Philadelphia, Boston and New York with warmth and a goodly share of critical hosannas.

The play is out of Shakespeare's middle period when he was at the height of his powers, written at about the time he wrote "Othello," after "Hamlet" and prior to "Lear." Although labeled a comedy, it is quite a serious work and tragedy is narrowly averted and then only through good fortune. It's easy to see how it shocked the Victorians, dealing with the stern enforcer of a Viennese law holding fornication illegal and punishable by death.

When a young man gets his girl with child, he is sentenced to die, and his sister, a novice in a nunnery, offers her own chastity in exchange for her brother's life. What particularly upset the Victorians was Shakespeare's straightforward appraisal of humanity, as when he has the wry Pompey ask the young governor if, to enforce the law, he plans "to geld and spay all the youth of the city?" Eras change. The candor that delights one age shocks another and can delight a third. But what endures is the essential truth in the poet in his evaluation of man for all his vice and folly.

When he has Angelo say: "They say best men are moulded out of faults, and, for the most part, become much the better for being a little bad," it's downright comforting.

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‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ (1945)

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Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger: I Know Where I’m Going (1945)  Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey

DOP:  Erwin Hillier

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I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1945)

Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Duncan MacKechnie, Finlay Currie, Pamela Brown, Murdo Morrison, Margot Fitzsimons, Catherine Lacey, Valentine Dyall, Petula Clark. Screenplay: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Cinematography: Erwin Hillier. Production design: Alfred Junge. Film editing: John Seabourne Sr. Music: Allan Gray. A stubborn young Englishwoman (Wendy Hiller) travels to the Hebrides to marry a man who lives on a remote island, but her journey there is interrupted by bad weather. Stuck on the Isle of Mull, she finds herself falling in love with another man, a naval officer (Roger Livesey) who also plans to journey to the island on shore leave. Lo and behold, she and the officer begin to fall in love, which only makes her more desperate to complete her journey. Complicating things, there's an ancient curse on the naval officer. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's film manages to overcome some dodgy psychology and hokey superstition with the aid of fine performances by Hiller as Joan, the stubborn young woman, and Livesey as the officer under the weight of the curse, making their characters persuasive and credible. Erwin Hillier's cinematography is superbly atmospheric, and incidentally overcomes an unusual handicap: Although much of the film is shot on the Isle of Mull, Livesey never went there because he was performing in a play in London. His scenes were all filmed in the studio and a double was used in the location shots. 

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Eger Panorama der Innenstadt und Marktplatz Original Egerländer Musikanten In der traditionellen Volksmusik-Szene gilt Ernst Mosch als König der Blasmusik. Mosch war zwar nicht der erste, der die Egerländer Musik in der Welt berühmt machte. Eger ist eine in der Karlsbader Region liegende Stadt im äußersten Westen Tschechiens. Die Stadt liegt am Fluss Eger im nördlich und südwestlich an Deutschland grenzenden Egerland, dessen historisches Zentrum die Stadt bildet, etwa 42 km westsüdwestlich von Karlsbad. Am 3. März 1919, einen Tag bevor am 4. März 1919 anlässlich der in Österreich stattfindenden Wahlen gegen die Zugehörigkeit zur Tschechoslowakei demonstriert wurde, kam es in Eger zu einem Volksaufstand und einer Schießerei mit zwei Toten. Am 1. Oktober 1933 gründete Konrad Henlein in Eger die Sudetendeutsche Heimatfront mit dem Ziel der „Zusammenfassung aller Deutschen“ in der Tschechoslowakischen Republik, die Partei musste sich 1935 in Sudentendeutsche Partei umbenennen und wurde bei den Parlamentswahlen im gleichen Jahr zur stärksten Gruppierung im Grenzgebiet. Durch das am 30. September 1938 unterzeichnete Münchner Abkommen wurde Eger mit dem Sudetenland dem Deutschen Reich zugesprochen und einen Tag nach der Unterzeichnung am 1. Oktober 1938 von deutschen Truppen besetzt. Am 3. Oktober besuchte Adolf Hitler die nunmehr deutsche Stadt und wurde dort von der Bevölkerung begeistert empfangen. Ernst Mosch (* 7. November 1925 in Zwodau, Tschechoslowakei; † 15. Mai 1999 in Germaringen) war ein deutscher Musiker, Komponist, Arrangeur und Dirigent. Er war Gründer und musikalischer Leiter der Original Egerländer Musikanten. In der traditionellen Volksmusik-Szene gilt er als König der Blasmusik. Mosch war zwar nicht der erste, der die Egerländer Musik in der Welt berühmt machte, er ist jedoch wohl der Erfolgreichste. Am 15. Mai 1999 starb Ernst Mosch in Germaringen. Er hatte über 1000 Konzerte gespielt, in 42 Ländern mehr als 40 Millionen Tonträger verkauft und sechs Goldene und Platin-Schallplatten gewonnen. Ernst Mosch war es immer verwehrt, in seiner Heimat, dem Egerland, mit den Egerländer Musikanten zu musizieren. Erst im Jahre 2010 gab das Orchester (nun unter der Leitung von Ernst Hutter) in Eger (tschechisch Cheb) sein erstes Konzert. „Seine größten Erfolge“ Moschs Schallplatte„Seine größten Erfolge“ zum 25-jährigen Bestehen hielt sich drei Monate auf Platz 1 der deutschen Charts. Er schob sich damit u. a. vor Phil Collins, Queen, ABBA, Iron Maiden, AC/DC und Pink Floyd. Das Jubiläum wurde am 2. Juni außerdem mit einer Floßfahrt auf der Isar gefeiert. Seit seiner Zeit als Musiker bei Erwin Lehn hatte Mosch keine Posaune mehr gespielt. Hier machte er zur Freude der Fans und seiner Musiker eine Ausnahme und jazzte „Oh when the saints go marching in“. Auf Vorschlag des Baden-Württembergischen Ministerpräsidenten Lothar Späth bekam Ernst Mosch für seine Verdienste um die Volksmusik das Verdienstkreuz am Bande verliehen. Am 5. September 1981 wurde Mosch die Hermann-Löns-Medaille in Gold verliehen, die als höchste Auszeichnung für die Verdienste um die Volksmusik gilt. Ende September desselben Jahres begann die große Jubiläums-Tournee durch ganz Deutschland. Im Alter von acht Jahren spielte Ernst in dem damals bekannten Falkenauer Jugendblasorchester der privaten Jugendmusikschule von Hans Dotzauer Flügelhorn. Bei seiner Rückkehr nach Falkenau lernte er die "landverschickte", aus Herne stammende Lydia kennen, die er 1945 zur Frau nahm. Aus der Ehe entstammen die Töchter Karin, Ellen und Brigitte. Infolge der Vertreibung der Sudetendeutschen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg floh Mosch im gleichen Jahr nach Bayern und verdiente sein Geld in amerikanischen Clubs mit Jazz. 1946 spielte er Posaune in der Band von Peter Hiller und Tenorhorn in der Original Kapelle Egerland unter Leitung von Rudi Kugler. Kurz darauf gründete Mosch zusammen mit Fred Bertelmann und Horst Reipsch eine eigene Kapelle, die sie REMO-Band nannten. 1951 suchte Erwin Lehn einen 1. Posaunisten, und Mosch erhielt die Stelle nach erfolgreichem Vorspiel. Mit dem Orchester Erwin Lehn spielt Mosch pro Jahr 10 feste Veranstaltungen für den Süddeutschen Rundfunk sowie zusätzliche Konzerte in ganz Europa (darunter: Monte Carlo, Brüssel, Venedig, Amsterdam und Paris). Erwin Lehn (* 8. Juni 1919 in Grünstadt, Pfalz; † 20. März 2010 in Stuttgart) war ein deutscher Musiker und Orchesterleiter. Am 1. April 1951 gründete er das Südfunk-Tanzorchester des Süddeutschen Rundfunks (SDR) in Stuttgart, das er bis 1992 leitete. Es entwickelte sich innerhalb kurzer Zeit von einer Rundfunk-Kapelle zu einer modernen swingenden Big Band: Erwin Lehn und sein Südfunk-Tanzorchester. Neben der Band von Kurt Edelhagen beim Südwestfunk wurde das Südfunk-Tanzorchester in den folgenden Jahren zu einer der führenden Swing-Big-Bands in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Zahlreiche Gastauftritte bekannter Jazzmusiker der 1950er und 1960er Jahre zeugen von der Anerkennung, die der Orchesterleiter in der Fachwelt genoss. Einige seiner Mitglieder gründeten später eigene Orchester, u. a. Horst Jankowski, Peter Herbolzheimer, Klaus Weiss und Ernst Mosch. Auf dem Bundespresseball 1955 in Bad Neuenahr spielte das Tanzorchester Erwin Lehn. Da diese Bälle extrem lange dauerten, entlasteten sich die Musiker gegenseitig, indem sie abwechselnd in kleineren Besetzungen, unter anderem auch einer Blaskapelle, spielten. Die Blaskapellenbesetzung wurde dann von Ernst Mosch geleitet, der zu dieser Zeit stellvertretender Orchesterchef war. In dieser Besetzung waren schon seine späteren Weggefährten Franz Bummerl und Gerald Weinkopf vertreten. Die Blasmusik-Besetzung war ein großer Erfolg auf dem Ball, da sie eine Abwechslung zum normalen Programm darstellte. Ernst Mosch organisierte daraufhin ein Orchester mit fester Blasmusikbesetzung. 1956 nahmen die 12 Blasmusiker 5 Titel beim Südfunk in Stuttgart auf, welche am 21. April 1956 ausgestrahlt wurden. Dazu gehörten unter anderem die Fuchsgraben-Polka und der Walzer Rauschende Birken. Bei der Namenssuche einigte man sich auf Die Egerländer Musikanten, da die meisten der Musiker aus Böhmen stammten. Bereits im Dezember des gleichen Jahres schloss Mosch einen Vertrag mit der Plattenfirma Telefunken für weitere Aufnahmen. Die Besetzung wurde auf 18 Musiker erweitert. Mosch, der davor noch selbst Tenorhorn spielte, setzte seine Prioritäten von nun an auf das Dirigieren und den Gesang. Im Jahr 1986 formierte er in Gedenken an seine Zeit bei Erwin Lehn aus den Original Egerländer Musikanten eine Big Band. Zur gleichen Zeit fanden zum 30. Jubiläum 30 Konzerte in Deutschland und den Niederlanden statt. Dabei trat Helga Reichel erstmals live mit auf. 1988 nahm er mit den Bläsern der Prager Philharmonie und des Prager Staatstheaters, sowie seinen vier ersten Flügelhornisten Franz Bummerl, Freek Mestrini, Ferenc Aszodi und Lubomir Rezanina eine Produktion mit 16 Polkas und Walzern auf. 1990 folgte ein Tonträger mit dem Rundfunk-Blasorchester Leipzig und dem Egerländer Flügelhorn- und Tenorhornsatz. Bei der Tournee zum 35-jährigen Bestehen 1991 spielte Mosch zum ersten Mal in den Neuen Ländern. Im selben Jahr widmete ihm das ZDF eine Sondersendung mit dem Titel „Mein größtes Fest der Blasmusik“. 1995 wurden Ernst Mosch und die Original Egerländer Musikanten aus Anlass ihres 40. Jubiläums von Marianne und Michael zu deren Sendung „Lustige Musikanten“ nach Frankenmuth bei Detroit eingeladen. Nach der Rückkehr erkrankte Ernst Mosch, sodass die Herbsttournee aufs Frühjahr verschoben werden musste. Diese fand dann vom 16. März bis zum 28. April 1996 statt und umfasst 30 Konzerte in Deutschland, Österreich und Südtirol. Das bei dieser Tournee aufspielende Orchester war zahlenmäßig die stärkste je live aufgetretene Besetzung der Original Egerländer Musikanten. Trotz schlechten Gesundheitszustands entschloss sich Mosch 1998 dazu, ein letztes Mal auf Tour zu gehen. Vom 6. März bis zum 27. April 1998 waren Ernst Mosch und seine Original Egerländer Musikanten auf ihrer Abschiedstournee durch ganz Deutschland ein letztes Mal live zu sehen. Der Klang bei der Tournee 1998 gilt nach allgemeiner Überzeugung als der ausgefeilteste und technisch beste Live-Mosch-Sound aller je durchgeführten Tourneen.

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[Last Film I Watched] 'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945)

[Last Film I Watched] ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ (1945)

Title: ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ Year: 1945 Country: UK Language: English, Scottish Gaelic Genre: Drama, Romance Directors/Writers: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Music: Allan Gray Cinematography: Erwin Hillier Cast: Wendy Hiller Roger Livesey Duncan MacKechnie Pamela Brown Finlay Currie George Carney Margot Fitzsimons Murdo Morrison Petula Clark Catherine Lacey Nancy Price Valentine Dyall Wa…