Just found out John Smith’s 1976 Girl Chewing Gum will be screened on Friday night at Tate Britain while Anthony’s performing Musica Practica.
I’m very happy to discover this – Smith’s film was a steady reference point for me when I was beginning to develop the conducting performance. I wrote a bit about these parallels in March last year (with Rowan Atkinson thrown in too..) – the fictionalized conceits of each are quite different, as is the relation between instruction and action, so I think they’ll complement one another well, both showing at the same place and time. Here’s what I wrote at the time:
http://www.tamarinnorwood.co.uk/three-models-of-co…
Here’s the updated Late at Tate line-up:
