Light Music

[Serial_Apologist]

Interesting and informative programme yesterday with Catherine Bott - highly recommended! (Hope this is posted in the right place)

Steerpike

Thanks Steerpike, for saving me the trouble!

[Petrushka]

Very interesting and enjoyable. I didn't know that the Dam Busters march wasn't originally written for the film.

This where those old LP sleeve notes (remember them?) come in handy! I've known that the Dambusters March was originally written as the Eighth Army March for very many years thanks to it being mentioned in the sleeve notes for (I think) a Charles Groves LP.

If I've got this correct, I believe that Eric Coates played in the first performance of the Schoenberg 5 Pieces for Orchestra.

[smittims]

My favourite light music composer was Anthony Collins. Not many of his pieces are well-known, except for Vanity Fair, but there's some on YouTube, including With Emma to,Town and Loveliest of Trees. He wrote quite a lot of film music for Herbert Wilcox, and even appeard as a conductor in two . He was also principal violaand chairman of the LSo for a while. As a conductor he's best known for his wonderful Sibelius series on Decca. Interestingly his own recordng of Vanity fair uses a faster tempo than is usual with other conductors.

[french frank]

This is the new Light Music thread, merging Steerpike's with the Breakfast posts which have been copied over..

[vinteuil]

... and for those who don't like Light Music - well, there are many continental European radio stations that still provide classical music



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[Nick Armstrong]

Interesting and informative programme yesterday with Catherine Bott - highly recommended!

I’ve downloaded this and am looking forward to a good listen - always had a soft spot for the best of British light music. Coates’s music has accompanied many a mile in the car… and I always metaphorically doff my cycling helmet when I pedal past the blue plaque on his apartment building just north of the Baker Street / Marylebone Road crossroads.

And concerning Mr Tomlinson, who* can remove Dick’s Maggot from the mind’s ear for hours after a hearing…?

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* Answer:

... and for those who don't like Light Music - well, there are many continental European radio stations that still provide classical music

… notre cher vinteuil, bien évidemment

[Pulcinella]

I’ve downloaded this and am looking forward to a good listen - always had a soft spot for the best of British light music. Coates’s music has accompanied many a mile in the car… and I always metaphorically doff my cycling helmet when I pedal past the blue plaque on his apartment building just north of the Baker Street / Marylebone Road crossroads.

And concerning Mr Tomlinson, who can remove Dick’s Maggot from the mind’s ear for hours after a hearing…?

A veritable ear maggot?

[Nick Armstrong]

A veritable ear maggot?

Yes, ummm… that's why I said that

[Pulcinella]

Yes, ummm… that's why I said that

Just clarifying things for the jury, Rumpole.

[french frank]

… notre cher vinteuil, bien évidemment [/COLOR]

Qui n'est pas seul! Mais enfin on est aussi un peu philosophe ...

[hmvman]

And concerning Mr Tomlinson, who* can remove Dick’s Maggot from the mind’s ear for hours after a hearing…?

You've started it off in my head now....!

[Nick Armstrong]

Qui n'est pas seul! Mais enfin on est aussi un peu philosophe ...

I might have chosen a different word to end that sentence…

[Nick Armstrong]

You've started it off in my head now....!

My work here is done

[Serial_Apologist]

I have to confess to feeling very conflicted in my attitudes towards Light Music. It probably represented my entry point into being a music lover in my early childhood. Much of the music is admittedly escapist, functional or both; the composers (at any rate those commenting during the programme) seemingly occupying a sheltered world of narrow (probably small c conservative) self-humbling outlook. Yet today's glib world of constantly escalating and often unnecessary self-defeating complexity presented as inevitable - which some of us find so difficult to adjust to - finds me ineluctably recalling the simple tunes played by one of the female teachers to greet us for morning assembly at the one school I was happy at, between seven and eight years of age, and, mostly without knowing the composers' identities (one obviously Mozart), reproducing them as best I now can at the piano.

Within six years Rock 'n' Roll would begin to displace Light Music from the radiophonic landscape, joining, as was stated, musicals and jazz as nearest inheritors of its tonal language and melodic inventiveness.

[teamsaint]

I was reading an interesting short piece about John Foulds last night, and discovered that he had written a lot of light music. In fact a lot of music altogether !! I don't know much of his work, although I know that some forum members rate some of it highly.

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