Rock 'n' Roll in Four Movements

[Guest]

Apologies if this is of no interest to anyone here, but last week a Radio 4 progamme discussed the history of rock and orchestral music crossing over:

Stuart Maconie talks to Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson about the genre's excesses. We hear from Roy Wood about the early days of the Electric Light Orchestra. And the late Jon Lord, in his last ever recorded interview, talks about his passion for writing classical music, inspired by his early experiment with his Concerto.

There is only two days left to "listen again":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m182x

[french frank]

Do not apologise, IRF - in any case, you never know who might be lurking and glad of that tip!

[Boilk]

Do not apologise, IRF - in any case, you never know who might be lurking and glad of that tip!

Indeed, thanks IRF! I'll check this out, if only to hear the underrated, and rarely heard Dr. Roy Wood speak.

[Boilk]

Ivan Hewett's blinkered take on the "demise" of Prog / pop-classical crossover...

"It's no surprirse that that era of the big-scale, rather grandiloquent pop-classical crossover was brought to quite an abrupt [sic] end [sic] by Punk Rock. I think it was partly a disgust with the big stadium bands and their grand and shiny, mock classical sound that inspired them to be so rebellious..."

[cloughie]

Do not apologise, IRF - in any case, you never know who might be lurking and glad of that tip!

More than we me think on these boards - interesting listen if not very deep!