Having posted a clip of David Bedford's "100 Kazoos" on one of the music threads, I described it as having been on a programme for children in 1971. It now appears from a page of the Radio Times that it was on an adults' programme in 1973. "Full House" presented by Joe Melia was broadcast at 9pm on BBC2. Does anyone remember it and if so can you say to what extent it was stimulating or merely gimmicky? It looks quite interesting to me and not like anything we have now. Here is what it featured on 17 February of that year:
"A live entertainment for Saturday, presenting a mixture of music, poetry, film, dance, comedy, the visual arts - and a few surprises.
Introduced by Joe Melia with a little help from John Bird Among the main events:
With 100 Kazoos
(British premiere)
For some contemporary composers, audience participation can produce a new kind of excitement. DAVID BEDFORD conducts the first performance in this country of an unusual work, in which a chamber ensemble of musicians will be joined by 100 kazoos, played by the studio audience.
One street beyond justice or love
MRS CAROL RUMENS wrote a sequence of poems during the time she was living on the New Addington housing estate near Croydon. Tonight she will read some of the poems that came out of that experience: and the studio audience will be invited to discuss questions raised by her work, about municipal housing in particular, and the quality of the environment in general.
Soft Machine
A group of four musicians whose brand of music defies categorisation, unique in having performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, a Henry Wood Promenade concert, and at rock centres throughout Europe and the USA.
They are MIKE RATLEDGE , keyboards; HUGH HOPPER , bass guitar; JOHN MARSHALL , drums; KARL JEN KINS, keyboard, oboe, saxophone.
10.10 Mass
The artistic director of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, ROBERT COHAN , has been working with composer VLADIMIR RODZIANKO on a new work, which combines dance and singing in a new form of music theatre. Mass is a fusion of Cohan's choreography and Rodzianko's score which will be sung by the dancers themselves.
The Sisters
A film adaptation of one of the - stories from Dubliners by JAMES JOYCE : with plus showgirls and shepherdesses, matadors and generals, ostriches, bears and turkeys: some unique fairground sculpture by master carvers that will be shown in the Full House studio.
The Sisters: adapted by JOHN MCGAHERN Director STEPHEN FREARS
Full House: Director VERNON LAWRENCE Producers NAOMI CAPON
TONY CASH. MICHAEL MACINTYRE
Assistant editor TONY STAVEACRE Editor BILL MORTON"
"A live entertainment for Saturday, presenting a mixture of music, poetry, film, dance, comedy, the visual arts - and a few surprises.
Introduced by Joe Melia with a little help from John Bird Among the main events:
With 100 Kazoos
(British premiere)
For some contemporary composers, audience participation can produce a new kind of excitement. DAVID BEDFORD conducts the first performance in this country of an unusual work, in which a chamber ensemble of musicians will be joined by 100 kazoos, played by the studio audience.
One street beyond justice or love
MRS CAROL RUMENS wrote a sequence of poems during the time she was living on the New Addington housing estate near Croydon. Tonight she will read some of the poems that came out of that experience: and the studio audience will be invited to discuss questions raised by her work, about municipal housing in particular, and the quality of the environment in general.
Soft Machine
A group of four musicians whose brand of music defies categorisation, unique in having performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, a Henry Wood Promenade concert, and at rock centres throughout Europe and the USA.
They are MIKE RATLEDGE , keyboards; HUGH HOPPER , bass guitar; JOHN MARSHALL , drums; KARL JEN KINS, keyboard, oboe, saxophone.
10.10 Mass
The artistic director of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, ROBERT COHAN , has been working with composer VLADIMIR RODZIANKO on a new work, which combines dance and singing in a new form of music theatre. Mass is a fusion of Cohan's choreography and Rodzianko's score which will be sung by the dancers themselves.
The Sisters
A film adaptation of one of the - stories from Dubliners by JAMES JOYCE : with plus showgirls and shepherdesses, matadors and generals, ostriches, bears and turkeys: some unique fairground sculpture by master carvers that will be shown in the Full House studio.
The Sisters: adapted by JOHN MCGAHERN Director STEPHEN FREARS
Full House: Director VERNON LAWRENCE Producers NAOMI CAPON
TONY CASH. MICHAEL MACINTYRE
Assistant editor TONY STAVEACRE Editor BILL MORTON"
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