Jack Brymer in London Borough of Haringey - 1948
from Tema Con Variazione ('Some Are Different from Others'), pages 35-37:
My very first impression of playing with a foreign orchestra, strangely enough, was at Haringey Arena in north London, in 1948, when for the first and last time in my experience two important orchestras played together as one: the French National Radio Orchestra from Paris and our Royal Philharmonic. The idea was Beecham's brain-child, and it worked remarkably well. We simply 'sat in ' together - six of each woodwind player, ten horns, eight trumpets, trombones to match, and over a hundred string players. I can't recall what happened in the percussion - probably not a lot, remembering the … more >>
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Jack Brymer, Tema Con Variazione ('Some Are Different from Others'). In Jack Brymer, In the Orchestra (London, 1987), p. 35-37. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1395327333936 accessed: 14 October, 2024
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Symphony No. 5 in C minor op.67
written by Beethoven |
performed by French National Radio Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra |
unspecified orchestral music
written by J. Strauss, Offenbach, Franz Schubert, Delius, Brahms, Paul Dukas, Pierre Boulez, Richard Strauss, Mozart |
performed by French National Radio Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra |
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written by Edward Elgar |
performed by French National Radio Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra |
unspecified orchestral music
written by Edward Elgar |
performed by French National Radio Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1948 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, in public |
Notes
Experience took place in Haringey Arena, north London.
Originally submitted by iepearson on Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:55:33 +0000