Composer Lookalikes

[antongould]

I don't know if it's in the credits, but it was the Sinfonia of London, which was assembled for film work. Bruce Montgomery had worked with them many times. Apparently he threw a party for the orchestra at Pinewood and later told Douglas Gamley, "Wonderful evening. Can't remember a thing about it".

Salymap is of course a great fan of Bruce Montgomery both with the Fen books and as a composer.

Have any of his letters emerged Pabs? Reading about Larkin very little of BM's correspondence seems in the public domain.

Have you read the Whittle biography?

[Hornspieler]

I don't know if it's in the credits, but it was the Sinfonia of London, which was assembled for film work. Bruce Montgomery had worked with them many times. Apparently he threw a party for the orchestra at Pinewood and later told Douglas Gamley, "Wonderful evening. Can't remember a thing about it".

Sinfonia of London was indeed formed for the making of film music usually under the baton of Muir Matheson.

The Horn section was usually run by John Burden, so would probably have included Mark Foster and Jimmy Dennis as well as Andy McGavin (well known at the time as the player who could allegedly reach as high as top Z!)

The principal flautist might well have been Edward(?) Walker.

I shall take a look at this clip tomorrow, but I suspect that many of the players would have been part of the failed "revolution" in March 1955 amongst the wind players against Ernie Fleishman, The LSO Chairman, and the conrol, by weight of numbers, by the string players, some of whom were long past their sell-by date..
Those players who took part were seeking to prioritise the LSO as a Film Orchestra under the conductorship of Muir Matheson.

The interesting fact is that Roger Lord, the oboist who led that revolution, was the one rebel who kept his place in the LSO.

I shall report again tomorrow.

HS

[Pianorak]

Sidney James and Benjamin Britten (apparently)

http://www.thoroughlygood.me/2013/02/02/benjamin-britten-vs-sid-james-is-it-too-soon/

[Mary Chambers]

Sidney James and Benjamin Britten (apparently)

http://www.thoroughlygood.me/2013/02...s-it-too-soon/

The perceived likeness between Sid James and Britten always upsets me slightly. There are some resemblances, but looks are much more than a face, and I don't think James was tall (-ish), long-legged and slender like Britten. Their personalities were SO different that it must have showed in their appearance to some degree - Sid James coarse and vulgar, Britten the complete opposite (though not above smutty jokes, I'm sure). It's hard to imagine two more different men. As for the difference in their voices.....

They did both have remarkable ugly noses, though. Even I will admit that

[Pabmusic]

Salymap is of course a great fan of Bruce Montgomery both with the Fen books and as a composer.

Have any of his letters emerged Pabs? Reading about Larkin very little of BM's correspondence seems in the public domain.

Have you read the Whittle biography?

I didn't know that about Salymap. Yes - I have the Whittle.

I went through a period in the 1980s when I was keen to investigate Bruce Montgomery and I had a (fairly minor) correspondence with Geoffery Bush, whose letters I still have and who was helpful in tracking down a couple of unpublished scores.

[antongould]

I didn't know that about Salymap. Yes - I have the Whittle.

I went through a period in the 1980s when I was keen to investigate Bruce Montgomery and I had a (fairly minor) correspondence with Geoffery Bush, whose letters I still have and who was helpful in tracking down a couple of unpublished scores.

Would you recommend the Whittle?

[Pabmusic]

Would you recommend the Whittle?

Oh yes. The chap's done a very detailed job - I guess it's quite an effort to write authoritatively about both music and literature, but he succeeds. It's certainly fact-filled - rather more of a factual narrative rather than a discursive one - but it's not just lists of facts.

[antongould]

Oh yes. The chap's done a very detailed job - I guess it's quite an effort to write authoritatively about both music and literature, but he succeeds. It's certainly fact-filled - rather more of a factual narrative rather than a discursive one - but it's not just lists of facts.

Cheers it's far from cheap!!!

[Pabmusic]

Cheers it's far from cheap!!!

Only too true. Ashgate is always terribly extortionate.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Only too true. Ashgate is always terribly extortionate.

Sadly true.

[Hornspieler]

Sinfonia of London was indeed formed for the making of film music usually under the baton of Muir Matheson.

The Horn section was usually run by John Burden, so would probably have included Mark Foster and Jimmy Dennis as well as Andy McGavin (well known at the time as the player who could allegedly reach as high as top Z!)

The principal flautist might well have been Edward(?) Walker.

I shall take a look at this clip tomorrow, but I suspect that many of the players would have been part of the failed "revolution" in March 1955 amongst the wind players against Ernie Fleishman, The LSO Chairman, and the conrol, by weight of numbers, by the string players, some of whom were long past their sell-by date..Those players who took part were seeking to prioritise the LSO as a Film Orchestra under the conductorship of Muir Matheson.

The interesting fact is that Roger Lord, the oboist who led that revolution, was the one rebel who kept his place in the LSO.

I shall report again tomorrow.

HS

I have taken these dates from the official LSO website, but I am pretty sure that the revolulion took place in 1953 or early 1954, because my friend and colleague in the RA Band, Denzil Floyd, who "bought his ticket" in 1954, joined the LSO as 2nd horn and at that time, Barry Tuckwell was the section principal. These things happened more than 60 years ago, whilst I was still cowering under the wrath and malevolance of Lt. Col. O W Geary MBE psm, Director of Music(sic) Royal Artillery Bands.

HS

[Beef Oven!]

Philip Arnold Heseltine



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Peter Warlock

[Roehre]

Philip Arnold Heseltine



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Peter Warlock

[Pabmusic]

Philip Arnold Heseltine



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Peter Warlock

Truly, truly remarkable likeness. Perhaps it's the Old Etonian Look that does it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Truly, truly remarkable likeness.

No; can't see it, myself.