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Harkness Hall Screens at RAH for VE Day 60th Anniversary Celebrations
Production company Flux Events have promoted and production managed a dramatic evening of music and film at London’s Royal Albert Hall using a 13.2m x 10m Harkness Hall screen.
Staged as part of the VE Day 60th Anniversary celebrations, a performance of Shostakovitch’s Leningrad Symphony, written in 1942 at the beginning of Nazi siege of the city, was performed by the St Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer’s son, Maxim.
A 72-minute film by Russian director Georgy Paradzhanov, which was inspired by author-designer Sergai Davitiaya, and the official Russian information agency, Novosti, cleverly used newsreel and contemporary images to mirror the haunting themes of the music. Projection was by two Barco projectors running overlaid images.
Another Harkness Hall screen, measuring 14.8m x 9.5m featured in an earlier Flux Events open air production in London’s Trafalgar Square - the screening of the film ‘Potemkin’, with music by the Pet Shop Boys.
Harkness Hall produce a range of event screens in a variety of surface materials, for front and rear projection, with sizes up to 29m wide.
21st July 2005
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