Pomp & Circumstances March No.1: Do You Like It?

[Biffo]

Why is it that record companies dont recognise conductors, like Norman Del Mar, as the way they did Sir Adrian Boult?

Possibly the record companies didn't consider him as good a conductor as Sir Adrian Boult or that, with no orchestra of his own, he had a lower public profile and his records wouldn't sell. This may sound unjust to his admirerd but the record companies had to make a profit. To take a different example, an EMI (?) executive said of Rudolf Kempe ' The British public adore him but won't buy his records'

[arancie33]

Thanks from me too, fascinating stuff. Am I alone in prefering the big tune in no 4 to LOHAG ?.

A bit late in the thread but I too much prefer No 4 to LoHG. Always have, but sealed in my memory after doing my bit on a parade in honour of Montgomery. No 4 was played during his inspection.

Perhaps I should try for "Your Call" - and pigs might do the flypast too

[Vile Consort]

...a dreadful libretto wallowing in the worst anglo-catholic nonsense. ...

Roman Catholic, surely?

[Mandryka]

I was merely pointing out your usual pompous assertion clashing with a later post, Mandy. Keep the toys in the pram dear

Neither a pompous assertion, nor a true accusation. Physician, heal thyself. Your infantile behaviour is sad and pathetic, especially in someone of your...ahem...great age.




Anyway....Del Mar: I always think of him in tandem with Sir Charles Groves as a conductor who covered much the same repertoire as several more famous conductors, who staked their claims earlier. No reflection on him, or his abilities.