Listen to the Prairies

This short documentary follows Manitobas annual Musical Festival profiling several of the young people whose talents made the festival a leading event in the Canada of the mid20th century Featuring boys and girls choirs violin and piano solos an excerpt from Gilbert and Sullivans The Pirates of Penzance and songs by a soprano and a contralto the film is an idyllic and melodic portrait the prairies of over half a century ago NFB