Movie: Facing the Music

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    Anne Boyd, one of Australia's leading contemporary composers, teaches music at the publicly funded University of Sydney. This documentary chronicles a year in the life of an academic department that's under the financial gun.

  • Release Date

    2001-07-07

  • Average

    6.8

  • Rating:

    3.4 starts
  • Tagline

    Professor Anne Boyd is fighting to save her university music department. She's going to need more than a miracle!

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    English
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