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Fâor one mid-January week, the imposing Blantyre resort served as the backdrop â and was in the forefront â of a public TV âGreat Performancesâ production in its âNow Hear Thisâ classical music documentary series.
An 18-member crew of producers, technicians, actors and musicians rented the 120-year-old Elizabethan Tudor manor house, which resembles a Scottish castle, to shoot the episode, âBeethovenâs Ghost.â Two medics were on hand to conduct frequent testing for COVID-19.
Series host and co-producer Scott Yoo, chief conductor and artistic director of the Mexico City Philharmonic and music director of Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo, Calif., assembled a group of three musician friends to record some of the composerâs most personal music.