BBC Phil under Juanjo Mena play Elgar, Brahms & Burgess on Saturday 28th September

[edashtav]

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Qué?

Sorry - I was in a hurry rushing out to deliver a talk on Army Manoeuvres,1913.

My position is that it's good to have available a reference performance of the overture, but it's too thin & insubstantial to warrant such a frequency of performance that orchestras feel they knowit, that it's "in repertoire" and can be scheduled with minimum rehearsal.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sorry - I was in a hurry rushing out to deliver a talk on Army Manoeuvres,1913.

Well, that's more impressive than "my cat ate it"!

My position is that it's good to have available a reference performance of the overture, but it's too thin & insubstantial to warrant such a frequency of performance that orchestras feel they knowit, that it's "in repertoire" and can be scheduled with minimum rehearsal.

This would be my general feeling, too; but I enjoyed it.

[edashtav]

This would be my general feeling, too; but I enjoyed it.

I've enjoyed its component parts many times over the year, but I'm not the kind of listener who enthuses over medleys, and this could have been sub-titled "These You Have Loved".
As I've said, a great addition to the Film Music season under its other sobriquet "Music for the Cinema".
Do you remember the work of John Greenwood, ferney ? He'd have been happy to have composed this piece.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've enjoyed its component parts many times over the year, but I'm not the kind of listener who enthuses over medleys, and this could have been sub-titled "These You Have Loved".

Ooh, you are awful! (I nearly mentioned in my last reply that I thought that the work would never require anything more than "minimum rehearsal" from a professional orchestra.)

As I've said, a great addition to the Film Music season under its other sobriquet "Music for the Cinema".

I don't hear this at all, ed - a pleasant pot pourri of a piece, but I can't imagine how it could be used as film Music. (Any more than Ireland's "London" Ovt or Coates' [IThe Three Bears[/I], for example.)

Do you remember the work of John Greenwood, ferney ? He'd have been happy to have composed this piece.

Not heard of him, ed - I feel a trip to the land of Wiki coming on ...

Postscript: Photos of my trip are available on facetwit; I return better informed but none the wiser.

[edashtav]

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[John Greenwood]
Not heard of him, ed - I feel a trip to the land of Wiki coming on ...

Postscript: Photos of my trip are available on facetwit; I return better informed but none the wiser.

Oh dear, I've checked musical dictionaries on & off line & nobody, but nobody, has heard of John Greenwood, by name or note!

I have these distinct memories of a piece, a concert work ( symphonic poem, I think), no I think it had the unappealing title "Concert Overture" , broadcast on a Sunday afternoon and played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The date being c. 1970.

Apparently, my man had composed some film music, and his concert piece had "British post -WWII" fingerprints all over it.

That & some dimmer memories of other works are all that remains.

Perhaps, Greenwood was a pseudonym used by Anthony Burgess.

John Greenwood, minor English 20th century composer, R.I.P. in "Ded's" brain. DED.

Please accept my apologies, ferney, for having led you up "memory lane".

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh dear, I've checked musical dictionaries on & off line & nobody, but nobody, has heard of John Greenwood, by name or note!

I have these distinct memories of a piece, a concert work ( symphonic poem, I think), no I think it had the unappealing title "Concert Overture" , broadcast on a Sunday afternoon and played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The date being c. 1970.

Apparently, my man had composed some film music, and his concert piece had "British post -WWII" fingerprints all over it.

That & some dimmer memories of other works are all that remains.

Perhaps, Greenwood was a pseudonym used by Anthony Burgess.

John Greenwood, minor English 20th century composer, R.I.P. in "Ded's" brain. DED.

Please accept my apologies, ferney, for having led you up "memory lane".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._H._Greenwood

[edashtav]

Cheers, Ferney, DED is not quite brain dead, yet.

Film after film but little else.

The original friend of today's Radio 3 !