Philip Green conducting St Patrick's Mass

Philip Green conducting St Patrick's Mass

Cork Film Festival, Philip Green, Festival Mass, St Patrick's Mass

This is a black and white photo of the English film and television composer and conductor Philip Green. In this picture Green is conducting his composition St Patrick’s Mass, which was televised live from the Franciscan Church in Cork for the opening of the 1971 Cork Film Festival. He is shown in profile, leaning over the music lectern, arms slightly raised as he concentrates on reading the score, whilst conducting under the bright glare of a stage light.

Philip Green was born in East London in 1911 and had an extensive career in film-music composition. He was appointed the musical director for the Rank Organisation (who had strong links with the festival in its earlier years) and composed hundreds of film scores and themes for popular television programmes during his career. His stock music production work even features on The Ren and Stimpy Show and SpongeBob SquarePants. However his conversion to Catholicism, in the early 1970s, contributed to his creation of the St Patrick's Mass, which he composed, produced, and recorded in 1970, before bringing it to Cork in 1971. Green died in 1982 but his recording of St Patrick’s Mass, performed by Canon Sydney MacEwan and Trinity Chorale, is still available and can be streamed on-line.

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Donal Sheehan

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

1971

Donal Sheehan

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TIFF
JPEG

English, eng

1971
Cork, Ireland

Photo

216 x 164mm