Antony Hopkins at 90

[Ferretfancy]

The many who remember Talking about Music might want to take a look at the back page reminiscences of Antony Hopkins in this month's IRR, he is shortly due to celebrate his 90th birthday.

I can still recall operating the tape machine at 1AA Portland Place for some of those incomparable broadcasts.

Happy Birthday to You !

[subcontrabass]

The many who remember Talking about Music might want to take a look at the back page reminiscences of Antony Hopkins in this month's IRR, he is shortly due to celebrate his 90th birthday.

I can still recall operating the tape machine at 1AA Portland Place for some of those incomparable broadcasts.

Happy Birthday to You !

???? see http://www.musicalpointers.co.uk/rev...ayConcert.html

[french frank]

Must be an old copy of IRR, Ferret ...

We have been here before.

[Ferretfancy]

Must be an old copy of IRR, Ferret ...

We have been here before.

Not so, french frank, it's this month's copy. July/ August 2012

[french frank]

Not so, french frank, it's this month's copy. July/ August 2012

Vairy strange! I was actually in contact with AH last year and he was touched to hear that R3 listeners had noticed his birthday and were sending him their good wishes. According to Who's Who he was born on the 21 March 1921, so is already 91 ...

[Hornspieler]

Vairy strange! I was actually in contact with AH last year and he was touched to hear that R3 listeners had noticed his birthday and were sending him their good wishes. According to Who's Who he was born on the 21 March 1921, so is already 91 ...

It seems like only yesterday that I was sitting in the Kingsway Hall, playing in a recording of Sullivan's di Ballo overture by the so-called "New Symphony Orchestra" (Decca's name for a pick-up group) which was conducted by Antony Hopkins, .

And that was in 1957!

May I add my personal congratulations to one of the most interesting and versatile musicians of my generation.

HS

[Hornspieler]

It seems like only yesterday that I was sitting in the Kingsway Hall, playing in a recording of Sullivan's di Ballo overture by the so-called "New Symphony Orchestra" (Decca's name for a pick-up group) which was conducted by Antony Hopkins, .

And that was in 1957!

May I add my personal congratulations to one of the most interesting and versatile musicians of my generation.

HS

The memory plays a few tricks with we old codgers and it may have been Anthony Collins who was conducting on that occasion, but my congratulations to the nonegarian still stand. (and I did meet him on one accasion in the late 1960s.

HS

[BBMmk2]

It seems incredble age! My father will be 94 this year!

I met AH, just the once, when he was doing one of his tours and we had a good chat about Brahms's Ballade in G minor, which I was playing at the time. He gave me some useful advice on that piece!

[Ferretfancy]

Does anybody remember a concert he organised and compered at the RAH which was a sort of spoof concert a la Hoffnung? It included a performance of An American in Paris with Lord Montague of Beaulieu suitably attired, sitting in a vintage car in order to play the bulb horns on the dashboard. I also remember another event in which eight pianists on eight concert grands played the Hexameron Variations. The soloists include the young Howard Shelley and David Wilde. All the soloists wore black cloaks and removed their white gloves before sitting down to play.