A voice from the pit : reminiscences of an orchestral musician
A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician
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| title | A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician |
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1426196275455: "Uncle Nutty", as I always knew him, often came wi... 1426196833147: We were not very good and never could manage more ... 1426256685304: I was also involved in my own home music scene wit... 1426256797605: In the summers, of course, there were the Proms. M... 1426256827650: During the Trio of the Schubert Great C major symp... 1426256852157: Here I was wander from chronological exactitude to... 1426256939686: My mother provided the funds and I bought a thirte... 1426340932521: He knew that the College wanted a bass clarinet, i... 1426340979433: It was at the College that I first played for Beec... 1426341004158: Beecham's next visit to the College was in 1934 to... 1426341032309: My youthful arrogance undiminished, I now began to... 1426341055495: ... a wind ensemble was started but my suggestion ... 1426341081546: There was one awkward moment when we were rehearsi... 1426430056163: I feel that I can tell this story as I had a simil... 1426430084972: In the twenties the only chamber music considered ... 1426430114425: A few days later I was thrown in at the deep end b... 1426430140113: To return to 1934, on the day that I had a phone c... 1426430167299: The first show was Shaw's "Saint Joan" with music ... 1426432681714: The second show was "Othello" with Abraham Sofaer ... 1426433073552: My next job was playing for Variety at the Coliseu... 1426433446377: Dennis Stoll, son of Sir Oswald Stoll, had pretens... 1426870914860: Film sessions were also a good source of income bu... 1426870936449: When it came to "Prince Igor" in that first season... 1426870955084: I was also learning a thing or two, playing in "La... 1426870981860: Next day we travelled back by boat and train in ti... 1426871003793: However, the whole affair seemed to have had an a... 1426871025544: During the 1935 season with Colonel del Basil's Ba... 1426871044192: Albert Coates, a fine conductor originally trained... 1426871061838: From September 23rd to October 5th 1935 it was the... 1426871100344: I also played the basset-horn obligato to the aria... 1426871119061: Naturally it was Beecham who conducted Delius' "Ko... 1426871159448: Albert Coates... did the "Siegfried". This was the... 1426871177892: Most of the recordings I made in the early days we... 1426871193217: On the other hand, when we made the much-publicize... 1426871207505: It was about this time that I experienced my first... 1426871231562: Beecham conducted Delius' "Mass of Life" which mea... 1426871249587: The other notable first performance was of Benjami... 1426871266847: The LPO played for various festivals before the wa... 1426871318822: We also performed the Bach "Magnificat" with Leon ... 1429012658760: The only memory I have of Leeds Festival of a work... 1429012701557: If I have not mentioned playing for Sir Adrian Bou... 1429012744114: Beecham also conducted "Die Meistersinger" uncut w... 1429012783610: By the April to June opera season of 1936 I was pl... 1429012825731: Fritz Reiner came for "Rosenkavalier", "Parsifal" ... 1429012867439: After all this it will be easy to understand why w... 1429012909798: Malcolm Sargent conducted Charpentier's "Louise" w... 1429012950629: Beecham was invited to lend lustre to one of these... 1429012983234: "Hansel and Gretel" was conducted by Lawrence Coll... 1429013025686: In January 1937 we were concerned with another sho... 1429093213306: ... so I was bitterly disappointed when I listened... 1429093245339: Hans Knappertsbusch conducted the "Salome"; he was... 1429093278204: In the April season Flagstad was back to delight a... 1429093321571: ... it would not be until he returned in the 1950s... 1429093353055: That same season saw just two performances of a ne... 1429211610741: There was considerable uncertainty as to whether w... 1429211648173: ...but another occasion impressed him in a very di... 1429211678120: I took Horst Walter to Hampstead Heath to see a sp... 1429211708143: Weingartner conducted "Tannhäuser" and "Parsifal".... 1429211763921: My clearest memory of the 1939 autumn concerts is ... 1429268558674: One thing was certain, money for the orchestra had... 1429268593076: I was more successful as an arranger and on Decemb... 1429268623578: On our way to Manchester for the next week of Jack... 1429268651965: My other extra mural activity at this time was cer... 1429268716841: I was in trouble again for sending a postcard to W... 1430586233896: I saw Berlioz' "Damnation of Faust" at the Opéra -... 1430586263089: It was November 11th when I went to "Pelléas et Mé... 1430586301054: After this we settled down to create a repertory: ... 1430586334074: ... and went to Buffet's to order myself a new E f... 1430586364185: For Massenet's "Manon" in 1947 we had a very young... 1430742787658: For example: anxious to start the Prelude to Act I... 1430742819527: We were expected to play in any position within ou... 1430742853885: Peter Gellhorn, Rankl's other assistant, conducted... 1430742884454: His Wagner (pace Peter Heyworth!) must have been t... 1430742931142: Probably the most successful production of our fir... 1431361309957: Rankl had insisted on taking the whole orchestra o... 1431361341215: Our first production of a Russian opera, "Boris Go... 1431361370782: It was on this tour that Constance Shacklock sang ... 1431361399750: The vagaries of principal singers have engraved tw... 1431361428004: In an early "Tristan" I had a terrible experience ... 1431361470898: This same year, 1949, saw the first performance of... 1431361498658: Muriel Brunskill, the contralto, was the other art... 1431361557464: It was a Saturday morning when Rankl whose days as... 1431361600838: I was one again on duty in the stage band when Kle... 1432842935437: I was not normally involved in "Carmen" but Kleibe... 1432842964850: 1951, Festival of Britain Years, saw the first per... 1432842991215: With the production of Constant Lambert's last bal... 1432843017304: ... when John Cranko choreographed Britten's "Prin... 1432843043266: In December of 1951 came the first performance of ... 1433701285897: An undeniable success in England despite its lack ... 1433701307234: We had an identical experience in 1963 when Shosta... 1433701328926: In the long dull days of touring, Howell Glynne, t... 1433701348308: He was with us through 1952 and 1953 for more sple... 1433701363830: "Billy Budd" was followed in January 1952 by the f... 1434827990079: Gui conducted "Norma" for Maria Callas's first app... 1434828021480: Their Musical Director was my fourth giant, Rudolf... 1434828051001: 1953 was Coronation Year and an opera had been com... 1434828410193: He was convinced, and he convinced us, that if you... 1434828453428: His "Tannhäuser" in 1955 was the first production ... 1434908582393: After "Othello" came a new "Magic Flute" which I f... 1434908614586: ... there were premières only a few weeks apart of... 1434908687935: The 1956-57 season was more exciting with Janáček'... | reported in source |
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