YouTube: the thread for interesting video links

[LMcD]

A fascinating hour-long TV documentary about Sir Thomas Beecham has just popped up on You Tube. I don't know if it's taken from a commercially-issued DVD or not, as the opening and closing credits have been lopped off. At any rate, it's narrated by John Amis and includes lots of interview material with TB, as well as filmed rehearsal and concert footage. Also uncredited on the screen are the various participants, of whom I recognized only Jack Brymer, Geraint Evans, Norman del Mar, Eva Turner and Leopold Stokowski. However, maybe the other faces will be recognized by those more knowledgeable than me, though I did notice Graham Stark and Joan Sims popping up to act out some anecdote or other concerning TB. I wonder what the date is of this TV programme ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J3WHz46gtg

Broadcast on BBC 1 on the 26th of March 1968 at 10.25 p.m.

[seabright]

Thanks for that date. The on-line Radio Times archive reveals the names of the participants who, in addition to the ones I mentioned earlier, were George Brownfoot, Eugene Cruft, Leon Goossens, Gerald Jackson and Cedric Sharpe. The lopping-off of the opening and closing credits remains a mystery. Nor does this programme appear to have been issued on DVD, so I guess someone video'd it off the TV and it's a copy of that which is now on You Tube. Still, I'm all in favour of interesting programmes from the past being made available for all to see today!

[Petrushka]

Loads of live LSO material here - including some at which I was present and Abbado conducting Elgar.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4KhAxhQUhOz45Tmp07RNKw/videos

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Wow! That is quite a find, Pet - many thanks

(Plenty of Previn there, too - a couple of Rach #2s, Walton#1, Britten Sinf da Req, Strauss, Ravel, Schuman ...)

[Bryn]

Youtube came up with this recommendation as a result of my watching the Ashampoo Actioncam promotional video. For once they hit the nail on the head:

The outstanding son and nephew, respectively, of two giants of north Indian music.

[vinteuil]

Youtube came up with this recommendation as a result of my watching the Ashampoo Actioncam promotional video. For once they hit the nail on the head:

The outstanding son and nephew, respectively, of two giants of north Indian music.

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... Rakesh presumably the nephew of Hariprasad? Whom I last heard at a night-time recital in Gwalior fort back in the 1980s - where has the time gone?


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[Bryn]

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... Rakesh presumably the nephew of Hariprasad? Whom I last heard at a night-time recital in Gwalior fort back in the 1980s - where has the time gone?


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Indeed. My first encounter with Hariprasad was the 1983 all-night Prom. A few years ago that I found, in Windsor charity shops, no less than three copies of his 3-CD set of rooftop night-time.performance "Hari~Krishna: In Praise Of Janmashtami (Raag~Mala)". Two of them I passed on to fellow R3ok contributors, the other I now can't find. It must be around the house, somewhere.

I have to agree with the negative comments regarding the video direction of the Youtube item.

[Lordgeous]

Is it possible for you to post the YouTube link rather than as an embedded movie? Many thanks.

[Darkbloom]

Is it possible for you to post the YouTube link rather than as an embedded movie? Many thanks.

You should be able to right-click on the video and it will give you the link address. Or press and hold if it's a touchscreen.

[vinteuil]

You should be able to right-click on the video and it will give you the link address. Or press and hold if it's a touchscreen.

... another solution : press 'reply with quote' to Bryn's #230, and you can see (for example) -

[....video=youtube;O2K0ptoYpuc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2K0ptoYpuc[/video.... ]

and if you extract the bit that is not in the square brackets, you get -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2K0ptoYpuc

... which should work.

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[Bryn]

... another solution : press 'reply with quote' to Bryn's #230, and you can see (for example) -

[....video=youtube;O2K0ptoYpuc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2K0ptoYpuc[/video.... ]

and if you extract the bit that is not in the square brackets, you get -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2K0ptoYpuc

... which should work.

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It also has the benefit of starting at the beginning.

[Richard Tarleton]

While we're celebrating England's Golden Age, here's a video of Queen Elizabeth's favourite dance, La Volta - don't miss the male dancer's stupendous double scissors at the start

This one is by Byrd, apparently, but absolutely everybody wrote versions of La Volta, and a few by Anon besides......

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

While we're celebrating England's Golden Age, here's a video of Queen Elizabeth's favourite dance, La Volta - don't miss the male dancer's stupendous double scissors at the start

This one is by Byrd, apparently, but absolutely everybody wrote versions of La Volta, and a few by Anon besides......

Go on - I give up: where've you hidden it?

[Richard Tarleton]

Go on - I give up: where've you hidden it?

Here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=uHWlfte2YiY

[Dave2002]

I rather liked this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru02...ature=youtu.be about learning to play a piece.

OK - it's on an organ, which I can't play, but does show the complexities of learning to play a piece, and how to try to get some parts working well.
This deals with practice - a subject which Tom Service recently had in one of his programmes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005gsk

As Fraser says in this video, learning to play pieces properly is hard, and probably requires different strategies for practice.

After watching this video once, the approach seems to be:

1. Quick scan through - possibly not even on the instrument it's eventually to be played on. Identify parts which might be difficult.

2. Go straight to one of the difficult parts.

3. Try to identify the problems in that. In the case of the organ there are a few issues - physical problems - technique. Physical problems are likely to be instrument specific.

4. Mental problems - keyboards and organs have different problems from melodic instruments, as there are co-ordination issues between the hands (left, right) and also the feet. In the case of wind instruments there is not that co-ordination issue between hands and feet, but there are likely to be co-ordination issues between lungs, mouth and fingers.

5. Try to split the issues ito separate parts.

6. Do try playing the section slowly several times, then gradually speed up.

and so on.

I liked the bit at the end where he suggests that you should be able to play a piece more or less from memory, while also thinking about tomorrow's meal, and what shopping list would work for that. I agree that one ought to be able to do that, but perhaps in the end one ought to be thinking about the music. However it may be possible to "overthink" a piece, which can be just as problematic as not practising or thinking hard enough. I think sportsmen (tennis players currently come to mind) also have this problem. Sometimes it's easier just to "let things go", until that doesn't work and then more focus is required. Too much "focus" just doesn't seem to work when it would be most helpful

Anyway, I'm not an organist - and unlike some others who "voted" on this video, I thought it made a lot of sense and I didn't get bored.