Summer School was founded to encourage the study of film music. Works Film scores: Clifton Parker wrote the music for many feature films, and is much admired for his "lively symphonic style". Although most of his scores are missing, presumed destroyed, several have been reconstructed by Philip Lane and have been released on a Chandos Records CD, performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Notable scores include: It Started at Midnight (1943) Yellow Canary (1943) Western Approaches (1944, Crown Film Unit) This Happy Breed (1944) Johnny Frenchman (1945) Steam (1945), short documentary directed by James E Rogers The Man Within (1947) Blanche Fury (1948) Poet's Pub (1949) The Blue Lagoon (1949) Treasure Island (1950) The Wooden Horse (1950) – finest scoring of credits Life in Her Hands (1951) The Story of Robin Hood (1951) The Sword and the Rose (1952) Single Handed (1953) Night of the Demon (1957) Campbell's Kingdom (1957) Sea of Sand (1958) The 39 Steps (1959) Sink the Bismarck! (1960) A Circle of Deception (1960) The Hellfire Club (1961) Taste of Fear (1961) The Treasure of Monte Cristo (1961) Girl on Approval (1961) H.M.S. Defiant (U.S. release: Damn the Defiant!) (1962) Mystery Submarine (1963) The Informers (1963) Documentaries: As well as his war documentaries, Parker also composed four British Transport Films documentaries; Elizabethan Express (1954), Long Night Haul (1956), Blue Pullman (1960) and Ocean Terminal (1952/1961). He also scored the incidental music to an episode of the acclaimed BBC Documentary War in the Air (1954). Stage: Parker wrote prolifically for the stage, notably for the Old Vic theatre, R.A.D.A. and the Hampstead Theatre Club. His scores include incidental music for a dramatic adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace; The Glass Slipper, based on Cinderella and The Silver Curlew based on Rumplestiltskin. He co-wrote 103 songs during his career, mainly for stage revues. He also wrote an opera Pyatigorsk in 1973. Concert music: In light music circles, Parker's overture to the play The Glass Slipper is now well known, although it was many years before it became available on a commercial recording. Much of Parker's concert music is now either lost or neglected, although some pieces are preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. A few orchestral pieces have been recorded, including the overture Thieves Carnival (1959) and the Two Choreographic Studies of 1940, written for his ballet dancer wife Yoma Sasburg to star in. Parker also composed a