Adventure in Music is a 1944 American concert film directed by Reginald LeBorg and Ernst Matray. It stars José Iturbi, Emanuel Feuermann, and Mildred Dilling.Dixon, 1992 p. 131: Directorial Credits
The film was advertised as the "first concert in film" and featured compositions by several classical artists, including Alexander Borodin, Antonín Dvořák, Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The film also featured works by contemporary composers. There are ten compositions in total.Dixon, 1992 p. 12: "The film is three 20-minute musical shorts strung together to give the illusion of a feature presentation...
Reception Showmen's Trade Review wrote that there is no plot, but rather "a collection of musical pieces played as in a concert and caught on celluloid." The review also noted that "only those who are concert devotees will go to see this." Meanwhile, The New York Times wrote that the film "has the static quality of a family album".
Director Reginald LeBorg, in his own retrospective appraisal, dismissed the film as unworthy of serious analysis. Film critic Wheeler Winston Dixon reports that "the film opened in New York to dismissive reviews, and swiftly sank from sight."Dixon, 1992 p. 12: LeBorg informed Dixon in a 1988 interview that the film was "not worth extended discussion."
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References Dixon, Wheeler Winston. 1992. The Films of Reginald LeBorg: Interviews, Essays, and Filmography. Filmmakers No. 31 The Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey.
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