Waterloo Festival, June 2015

[Dave2002]

What, no Beethoven's Wellington Victory?

See msg 7!

[Serial_Apologist]

Were it not for my having an unavoidable meeting on that night I would have gone, because there are composers whose music I have not heard, and it's on my beaten track.

[Flosshilde]

which prompted Beethoven to make a rather crude riposte.

But you're not going to tell us what it was?

The piper at Waterloo, Kenneth Mackay, walked outside the squares playing the pibroch War or Peace - Cogadh no Sith - and was unharmed, though pipers in some previous battles had not been so lucky.

There's probably a crude riposte to that. too

[Dave2002]

But you're not going to tell us what it was?

Left as an exercise for the reader!

[BBMmk2]

I was wondering, surely there's some work that was written in 1815 or perhaps The Battle of Waterloo or even Beethoven's Battle Symphony?

[Honoured Guest]

Is there any classical music specifically written about the battle of Waterloo?

The history book on the shelf is always repeating itself.

[Pabmusic]

I was wondering, surely there's some work that was written in 1815 or perhaps The Battle of Waterloo or even Beethoven's Battle Symphony?

Post no. 9 is a reminder that Schubert's 3rd Symphony was written over the period of the battle of Waterloo. Beethoven's Wellington's Victory celebrated the battle of Vittoria in 1813.

The Waterloo Festival has been going for the last five years, by the way. It's not a one-off.

[Flosshilde]

The Waterloo Festival has been going for the last five years, by the way. It's not a one-off.

"Annual arts and community festival established in 2011.

Each year's programme will focus in different ways on the effect and legacy of wars on communities and on people.

St John's Waterloo is working closely with local residents, institutions, artists and musicians, community groups and others to create a festival which engages local communities with big questions, in creative and imaginative ways.

Bringing together diverse groups in Waterloo, using the past to inform the present, the festival will showcase the life of Waterloo in a new and different way."

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/groups/waterloo-festival

Which does indicate that it has a tenuous link to the battle, but is more concerned with the local community.

[french frank]

When [] our local library subscribed to the Online Grove, it was possible to search on a term like Wellington/Waterloo and turn up interesting details.

[Pabmusic]

...Which does indicate that it has a tenuous link to the battle, but is more concerned with the local community.

I felt so frustrated that I got out my Monty Python Box Set and watched the interview with the composer, Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson.

Seemed appropriate somehow.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I felt so frustrated that I got out my Monty Python Box Set and watched the interview with the composer, Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson.

Seemed appropriate somehow.

There are times when Threads seem to resemble the Parish Council meetings in The Vicar of Dibley!

[Pabmusic]

There are times when Threads seem to resemble the Parish Council meetings in The Vicar of Dibley!

[Flosshilde]

Just to re-inforce that the Festival is not commemorating the battle - the railway station doesn't either, but was named after the nearby Waterloo Bridge, which was called the Strand Bridge between its design in1809-10 and opening in 1817. So possibly the Kinks' Waterloo Sunset would be more appropriate music for the Festival than Beethoven's Wellington's Victory, which isn't about the Battle of Waterloo at all (as has been pointed out several times already - although I have to admit that I thought it was until I read this thread )

[underthecountertenor]

Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Central School of Dance
Simon Oliver and Graham Ross (cond.)

That should be Simon Over

[Corrections made - thank you - ff]

[Dave2002]

There are times when Threads seem to resemble the Parish Council meetings in The Vicar of Dibley!

Real parish council meetings are hardly ever such fun - though there are times .....