These short pieces are from a variety of sources.
After Hell in from a radio play, called Don Juan and Faust, by Christian Dietrich Grabbe, written in 1828 and devised for radio by Peter Barnes.
Alone is from another Barnes play, Sunsets and Glories, which opened at the Yorkshire Playhouse in 1990
Dancer is a fragment of a work for the Royal Ballet School
Eli-Eli is a scene-change piece for Barnes’ tv play The Sprit of Man, 1990
Jumping Bean Bag (1976) was my first foray into television. The ‘Play for Today’ was about public schoolboys who form a rock band.
Klezmer Dance is a fragment of my Quintet which you can hear in the section called Chamber
Then Shanty was composed for the TV Play, Bye-Bye Columbus, BBC 1992 (also by Peter Barnes)
This Tango was the only piece that Peter Barnes ever rejected. It was composed for Nobody Here but us Chicken (Ch4 1989). I managed to sneak it in somewhere else.
A Question of Choice was a film directed by Douglas Camfield, who went on to much better things.
Paul Nash was an Arts Council film directed by Tristram Powell in 1978
Confessions of a Schoolboy was a short animation by a student at the Film School of the Arts Academy, Bournemouth.
MISC.
Licence to Live was an unaired pilot for HTV in 1995 which starred Tony Robinson as a parole officer.
Button Eye was an independent animation from Moth Studios (1996)