Richard Temple Savage - in the middle of the 1930's
from A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician, pages 28-29:
Dennis Stoll, son of Sir Oswald Stoll, had pretensions to be a conductor and had persuaded his father to let him put on this "Televariety" - TV was just then starting - a show with rather highbrow leanings, He insisted on a full symphony orchestra and most of the players were from the College or the Academy. The first oboe was Edwin [sic] Selwyn (later first oboe of the BBC Symphony Orchestra) and the second bassoon, Vernon Elliott, was contra-bassoon at Covent Garden after the war, but the first bassoon, who rejoiced in the wonderful name of Zizzolfo, was quite dreadful and made the most … more >>
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Richard Temple Savage, A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician (Newton Abbot, 1988), p. 28-29. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1426433446377 accessed: 15 September, 2024
Listeners
Richard Temple Savage
1909-
Listening to
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'Beni Mora' op. 29 no. 1
written by Gustav Holst |
performed by Richard Temple Savage, Dennis Stoll, Edward Selwyn, Vernon Elliott, Randal Stoll |
'España'
written by Emmanuel Chabrier |
performed by Richard Temple Savage, Edward Selwyn, Vernon Elliott |
unspecified Tchaikovsky piano concerto
written by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky |
performed by Richard Temple Savage, Edward Selwyn, Phyllis Sellick, Vernon Elliott, Cyril Smith |
Experience Information
Date/Time | in the middle of the 1930's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, in public |
Notes
The first oboe was Edward Selwyn according to a hand-written annotation on page 28 of the RCM's copy of this book. Locations unspecified.
Originally submitted by iepearson on Sun, 15 Mar 2015 15:30:46 +0000
Approved on Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:19:56 +0000