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Composer Bruce Smeaton on Picnic at Hanging Rock
Title:
Composer Bruce Smeaton on Picnic at Hanging Rock
NFSA ID
420411
Year
1974
Composer Bruce Smeaton talks candidly about his musical contribution to Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).
At the time of this interview with Peter Beilby and Ivan Hutchinson in 1974–75, Smeaton was in the process of composing what would become the 'Ascent Music' in the film.
Notes by Stephen Groenewegen
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