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1944 UK / ARTS: Music world honours Sir Henry Wood
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1:32Now PlayingDate: 9th March 1944
Location: ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC, MARYLEBONE RD., ENGLAND
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SV crowd applauding. GTV Leslie Boosey at microphone. Side view Sir Henry and Lady Wood listening to Boosey. CU Lady Wood listening. SV opening book to be presented to Wood. CU turning over pages and showing signatures. SV Ralph Vaughan Williams (Composer) presenting book to Wood. LV Wood at microphone.
Wood speech SOT
- "and although we celebrate this anniversary in the year of my Promenade Concerts Jubilee, I assure you I do not contemplate retirement. (Applause)... And I hope to wag the stick until the Inevitable claims this old timber". (Applause)
More of Wood painting.
Wood reading book he was presented with. CU Wood.
Personalities - Musicians; Sir Henry Joseph Wood (1869-1944), Ralph Vaughan-Williams (1872-1958), Great Britain
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