Richard Temple Savage in Birmingham - October, 1935
from A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician, page 35:
Albert Coates... did the "Siegfried". This was the only time I played for him in opera... In 1935 the cuts he put in "Siegfried", when we went on tour to Brimingham [sic] a week later with a small orchestra, were staggering. It was quite usual for Wagner to be heavily cut but this was "Cut eight bars, play eight bars" all over the place; it worked but made it very difficult for us.
cite as
Richard Temple Savage, A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician (Newton Abbot, 1988), p. 35. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1426871159448 accessed: 20 September, 2024
Listeners
Richard Temple Savage
clarinettist music librarian, writer, music librarian, Clarinetist, Writer
clarinettist music librarian, writer, music librarian, Clarinetist, Writer
1909-
Listening to
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Siegfried
written by Richard Wagner |
performed by unspecified musicians, Albert Coates |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | October, 1935 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, in public |
Notes
Follows straight on from Experience 1426871061838.
Originally submitted by iepearson on Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:05:59 +0000
Approved on Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:26:21 +0000