Concord of Sweet Sounds

The Concord of Sweet Sounds is a 1963 Australian TV play starring Stuart Wagstaff, directed by Henri Safran and written by Patricia Hooker. Henry Gilbert played a musical genius.^[1][2]

It was adapted for radio in 1967.^[3]

Plot

Pianist Robert Gehrman arrives in Sydney. Maggy is his secretary.

Cast

• Henry Gilbert as pianist Robert Gehrman
• Gaynor Mitchell as Maggie his secretary
• Stuart Wagstaff as Robert's American antagonist
• Carla Cristan

Production

Patricia Hooker was bst known for writing radio. Henri Safran had been producing Four Corners. ^[4]

Reception

The critic for the Sydney Morning Herald wrote that:

In the imagination of most authors who dramatise the lives of concert pianists, not much can happen before flying fingers take off on the Revolutionary Study, or soulful eyes gaze out over the Liebestraum. "Concord of Sweet Sounds... while it is centred on a concert pianist, for the most part happily avoids such effusions... It contains several portraits of typed concert-world people, but its observations, even if they are conventional, are apt and convincing. The actors were admirably chosen in a splendidly fluent production by Henri Safran. "Henry Gilbert, as a veteran concert star facing retirement, was mild but dominating, with craggy, proud head and much silver hair. Stuart Wagstaff, as his musical ¦ antagonist, the smooth and dynamic young American conductor, was perhaps made to be- harsher than would be likely, but he clearly, illustrated the new order against the old. Carla Cristan found the calm determination within the starry-eyed - aspiring student, and Gaynor Mitchell conveyed the devotion and final exasperation of the faithful secretary. While this brief play did little more than give a glimpse of a group of people bound to music in various ways, it did so with refreshing competence and understanding.^[5]

References

External links

• Concord of Sweet Sounds at IMDB