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Tis the land where the columbines grow,
Overlooking the plains far below,
While the cool summer breeze in the evergreen trees
Softly sings where the columbines grow.

Jon, Claire and Linda are busy filming at AARC in Denver for ecancer.tv. Had to battle through a snow storm but all safely there to film. We’ve just put them on twitter so Jon was busy tweeting in between takes.

We’ve been pretty busy in the video studio over the last year and have just read that we’re in the Televisual Top 50 Corporate TV companies (giddy heights of 45, steady there). Now there’s a target for 2010. Bring it on.

However much you tell people what you’re about, there’s nothing like showing them.

That’s why we encouraged the London Handel Festival to make a video of a typical major production of the Festival in rehearsal. We filmed some great music and heard what the stars, the artistic director and his colleagues have to say about Handel, his music and his place in the life of London (his adopted home for 50 years, and the place where he died).

We picked Theodora – one of the last and greatest of Handel’s oratorios whose theme – dear to mid-eighteenth century novelists – was that of a virtuous damsel in distress. The setting for this production was the great church of St George’s in Hanover Square, where Handel himself worshipped, and where the London Handel Festival has its home. The result, we hope you will agree, is astonishing and curiously moving.

Handels Theodora from Charlie Grieve on Vimeo.

We’ve recently finished shooting and editing some films for Kazakh metals and minerals company ENRC with our chums at Phoebus. Covering a country the size of Western Europe had its challenges – quaffing the local horse-flavoured vodka was just one. Genuinely hospitable people although the local jimmy-jibbers out of Almaty didn’t seem to have the sense of humour gene switched on – I guess a 24hr car journey to the first set up isn’t very funny. Astana extraordinary – bit like ancient Rome meets Dubai. And the wild apple forests were gorgeous – Marco Polo knew his apples. Check out our little behind the scenes clip put together by J.