The conductor's joke about the girl's harp sounding like skeletons making love on a tin roof is actually a paraphrase of a quip from famed British conductor Thomas Beecham, who described the sound of the harpsichord (NOT harp) as being like "skeletons copulating on a tin roof."
Posters and album covers on the wall of the music publishing office include many pop stars including Acker Bilk, Ella Fitzgerald, Cliff Richard, Conway Twitty, and Ray Conniff.
The exterior scenes of the fictional London Academy of Music and Art were filmed at University College London.
The Patron of the college is shown as His Grace the Duke of Omnium. This is a fictional character in the Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope.
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