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22 September 2022
FILMS MUSIC THEATRE
SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC: FILM
WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
“To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield”. The story of Captain Scott’s tragic voyage to the South
Pole is one of the greatest of all adventures, and the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic is a
true classic of British cinema, shot in spectacular full-colour. Naturally, they asked Vaughan
Williams to write the score and now, in his 150th anniversary year, we get to hear his extraordinary
music in full-colour too, as the Orchestra, Choir, soprano soloist and Andrew Manze accompany
