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1 online resource (streaming video file) (45 min. 6 sec.) ; 273997788 bytes |
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As part of the 50 Years Four Corners celebrations, ABC News 24 will air selected programs from each decade over five weeks.Tonight we revisit the 1990s with David Marr's moving profile of Stuart Challender, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conductor who was battling AIDS. The program documented the life of an enormously gifted individual, who was privately coming to terms with his sexuality and an illness which eventually took his life. During Challender's accomplished career he worked in Europe, before becoming resident conductor for Opera Australia and later moving to chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 1987. In January 1991 Challender received an Order of Australia "in recognition of his services to music". The program itself went onto win a coveted Walkley Award for journalist David Marr and producer Andrew Haughton.A short interview with David Marr will also be aired, along with the original programPRODUCTION DETAILSReporter, David Marr. Producer, Andrew Haughton. Executive Producer, Marian Wilkinson. Originally broadcast 29th July, 1991 |
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Broadcast 2011-09-25 at 22:00:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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AIDS (Disease) -- Patients.
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Celebrities -- Conduct of life.
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Challender, Stuart.
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Conductors (Music)
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Musicians -- Diseases.
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Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Challender, Stuart, contributor
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Discroll, Thelma, contributor
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Hawke, Hazel, contributor
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Hazelwood, Donald, contributor
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Hewgill, Katie, contributor
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Marr, David, reporter
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Olle, Andrew, host
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Prussing, Ron, contributor
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Smith, Michael, contributor
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Vallentine, Mary, contributor
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