Richard Temple Savage in Royal Opera House - at the end of the 1940's
from A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician, page 116:
We were expected to play in any position within our section so I found myself as first clarinet for "Il Trovatore" under the baton of Rankl's assistant, Reginald Goodall. Since our College days I had only seem him occasionally when he was assisting Malcolm Sargent and had been repelled by his over anti-Semitism. He was by all accounts an excellent coach, singers loved to learn with him. A disciple of Furtwangler, his approach to conducting was intensely emotional which could produce fine moments if all was well but he had a very limited stick technique - openly despising such practical … more >>
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Richard Temple Savage, A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician (Newton Abbot, 1988), p. 116. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1430742819527 accessed: 9 October, 2024
Listeners
Richard Temple Savage
1909-
Listening to
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Il Trovatore
written by Giuseppe Verdi |
performed by Covent Garden Opera Company, Reginald Goodall |
Experience Information
Date/Time | at the end of the 1940's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
Follows straight on from Experience 1430586364185.
Originally submitted by iepearson on Mon, 04 May 2015 13:33:39 +0100
Approved on Sun, 20 Dec 2015 16:02:16 +0000