100 years of Larking

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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30301

    100 years of Larking

    Tomorrow is the centenary of the premiere of The Lark Ascending in Shirehampton Public Hall, Bristol. To mark the occasion, (almost) the same concert will be performed and streamed from the same 'village' hall. The violin soloist will be Jennifer Pike, with pianist Helen Reid.

    A 'Discovering Music' talk was given yesterday from Kingsweston House, where RVW was staying and completed the work. If you'll forgive the single lapse of 'Sme-TAH-na', Jonathan James's analysis from the piano was worth hearing (ferney's comment was that as a video, it would have been good radio - but on his computer the sound seemed to be out of synch with the picture. I watched when it was first streamed and it was fine, but the camera work was a bit iffy). The talk (23 mins) is here:

    Details about the concert, 7.30 tomorrow here (link updated).
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
  • oddoneout
    Full Member
    • Nov 2015
    • 9204

    #2
    On Friday BBC4 showed this https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019c9t9 It wasn't Sir Adrian Boult and Hugh Bean so why on earth that appears as 'music played' I don't know. It was a 15 year old Julia Hwang plus pianist Charles Mathews, and also in Shirehampton Hall.

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    • french frank
      Administrator/Moderator
      • Feb 2007
      • 30301

      #3
      Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
      On Friday BBC4 showed this https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019c9t9 It wasn't Sir Adrian Boult and Hugh Bean so why on earth that appears as 'music played' I don't know. It was a 15 year old Julia Hwang plus pianist Charles Mathews, and also in Shirehampton Hall.
      I saw something about someone in Shirehampton seeing Diana Rigg and speaking to her ('and she was very nice'). I wondered what that was about. Well, tomorrow is the actual date (I expect Radio 3 has done a Discovering Music programme on it too).
      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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