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Julian Bream was tentatively going to appear in a film based on the life of the 16th century Italian composer Alfonso Ferrabosco. He was going to play a deaf musician.

In an interview by Colin Cooper and Maurice Summerfield in the March 1986 issue of Classical Guitar, Julian was asked a few questions about the role that never materialized.

Colin Cooper: l read somewhere that you were going to make a film about the 16th century Italian composer Alfonso Ferrabosco.

Julian Bream: That seems to have fallen by the wayside. I was going to do a bit of acting in that. I was going to try and play a deaf musician. It was a great pity, that. It was a Canadian company that was being financed by an Italian company. I believe they were going to do it in Italy. But 70 percent of film projects fall by the wayside. They are set up, you give it what they call the treatment, the story line, you get all the personnel lined up, you blanket out a whole wodge of time in your diary, and then right at the last moment the money doesn’t come through, and the whole thing’s up the spout.

Maurice Summerfield: Would this have fulfilled a secret ambition to act?

Julian Bream: No. It was just something that amused me, that’s all. There again, to do some of that wonderful lute music would have been a very good thing. People listen to the lute by way of a rather specialised congregation of specialised concerts, the whole early music concept. Whereas it’s quite nice really to entice people into the sound of the lute. There’s a hell of a lot going for the lute. And there is, it seems, now an audience for it.

End Note:

Colin Cooper and Maurice Summerfield, "Julian Bream on Meeting Stravinsky and Shostakovich, and Modern Guitar Compositions", Classical Guitar, March 1986.

Alfonso Ferrabosco film