Those Magnificent Airmen in Their Flying Machines
Ron Goodwin (arr. Larry MacTaggart)
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General Info
Year: 1965 / <2001
Duration: c. 4:15
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: U.S. Air Force Band
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines; Or, How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes is a 1965 British comedy film starring Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Robert Morley, Terry-Thomas and James Fox, directed and co-written by Ken Annakin.
Based on a screenplay entitled Flying Crazy, the fictional account is set in 1910, when Lord Rawnsley, an English press magnate, offers £10,000 to the winner of the Daily Post air race from London to Paris, to prove that Britain is "number one in the air".
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
- Audio CD: United States Air Force Band (Lowell Graham, conductor) - 2011
- Audio CD: United States Air Force Band (Lowell Graham, conductor) – 2000
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Virginia Grand Military Band (Alexandria) (Loras John Schissel, conductor) - 5 November 2022
- Virginia (Virginia Beach) Wind Symphony (Lowell Graham, conductor) - 13 May 2017
- South Jersey Area (Linwood) Wind Ensemble (Larry H. Lang, conductor) - 2016
- United States Air Force Band I (Washington, D.C.) (Lowell Graham, conductor) – 20 December 2000 (2000 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- 633 Squadron (arr. Daehn) (1964/2003)
- Aces High (arr. Daehn) (1969/2012)
- Freefall
- Luftwaffe March. See: Aces High
- Tall Ships
- Those Magnificent Airmen in Their Flying Machines (arr. MacTaggart) (1965/<2001)
- Time Traveller Suite
- Where Eagles Dare (arr. Daehn) (1968/2011)
Resources
- Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Wikipedia Accessed 17 May 2017