Richard Temple Savage in Royal College of Music - 1934
from A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician, page 23:
Beecham's next visit to the College was in 1934 to conduct three performances of Delius' "A Village Romeo and Juliet" by which time I had graduated to playing bass clarinet. It was a work ideally suited to a student performance as it required a large orchestra and a vast number of small-part singers; also we could have unlimited rehearsal time. At the early rehearsals we were taught the note by Constant Lambert, but only Beecham could shape the work satisfactorily. Delius's music is notoriously difficult to conduct, it is architecturally fragmented and can sound as if it were constantly … more >>
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Richard Temple Savage, A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician (Newton Abbot, 1988), p. 23. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1426341004158 accessed: 23 December, 2024
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Richard Temple Savage
1909-
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'A Village Romeo and Juliet'
written by Delius |
performed by orchestral musicians from the Royal College of Music, singers from the Royal College of Music, Sir Thomas Beecham |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1934 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by iepearson on Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:50:04 +0000
Approved on Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:16:02 +0000