Perfect Harmony is a Disney movie (released on March 31, 1991) that is set in the US Civil Rights era. The story highlights the racial tensions of the Black and White populations within a South Carolina town and its private school. The production was filmed at Berry College

Berry College

Berry College is an American accredited, private, four-year liberal arts college located in Mount Berry, unincorporated Floyd County, Georgia, north of Rome. It was founded in 1902 by Martha Berry.-Location:Berry College is located on U.S...

, and is noted for its soundtrack which featured classical choir pieces. It was released on VHS

VHS

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 and later on DVD

DVD

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.

Plot

In 1959, a new teacher named Derek Sanders becomes the new choirmaster for Blanton Academy, a prestigious but all-white private school in South Carolina. Mr. Sanders tries to reduce some of the prejudice and hostility of some of the students in his choir. Paul, a bully who feels he should be lead boy, is the worst offender. Taylor Bradshaw on the other hand is impressed by the music of Landy Allen, a black boy, grandson of Zeke, the school caretaker. Taylor begins to explore the music and lives of the colored
people who live in Rivertown despite knowing that it could get him expelled or rejected. Sanders is also impressed by Landy's abilities and attempts to get him involved with the choir. A tragedy in the community brings the race issue to a head.

Cast

• Justin Whalin
  Justin Whalin
  Justin Garrett Whalin is an American actor best known for his role as Jimmy Olsen in the American television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.-Early life:...
  
   - Taylor Bradshaw
• Eugene Byrd
  Eugene Byrd
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   - Landy Allen
• Darren McGavin
  Darren McGavin
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   - Mr. Hobbs
• Peter Scolari
  Peter Scolari
  Peter Scolari is an American television, film and stage actor best known for his roles in the television shows Newhart, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, and Bosom Buddies.-Career:...
  
   - Mr. Derek Sanders, the Choirmaster
• Catherine Mary Stewart
  Catherine Mary Stewart
  Catherine Mary Stewart is a Canadian actress. Her first notable role was as Kayla Brady on the soap opera Days of our Lives from 1981 to 1983...
  
   - Miss Hobbs, Mr. Hobbs' daughter.
• Moses Gunn - Zeke, the campus caretaker
• David Faustino
  David Faustino
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   - Paul
• Casey Ellison
  Casey Ellison
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   - Orville
• Richie Havens - Scrapper Johnson
• Cleavon Little
  Cleavon Little
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   - Pastor Clarence Johnson
• Jeff Cohen - Ward
• Devin Ratray
  Devin Ratray
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   - Shelby
• Wallace K. Wilkinson - Mayor Macy
• Dan Biggers
  Dan Biggers
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   - Doctor

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack includes All We Like Sheep and Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah

Messiah (Handel)

Messiah is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742, and received its London premiere nearly a year later...

, Franz Schubert's

Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...

 Ständchen in D Major

Schubert compositions D number 505-998

This is a catalogue of works by Franz Schubert, ordered according to the "D numbers" of an updated version of the chronological catalogue of Schubert compositions by Otto Erich Deutsch....

 and Schwanengesang

Schwanengesang

Schwanengesang is the title of a posthumous collection of songs by Franz Schubert.Unlike the earlier Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise, it uses poems by three poets, Ludwig Rellstab , Heinrich Heine and Johann Gabriel Seidl . Schwanengesang has the number D 957 in the Deutsch catalogue...

, and Mozart's

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

 Laudate Dominum

Laudate Dominum

Laudate Dominum are the opening words of Psalm 116 or 117 in Latin. As with the other Psalms, "Laudate Dominum" is concluded with a trinitarian doxology when used in Roman rite...

, as well as Vollendet ist das große Werk from Haydn's Creation.

External links

• Review of the film