Rock 'n' Roll in Four Movements

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  • IRF
    • Nov 2024

    Rock 'n' Roll in Four Movements

    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":

    Stuart Maconie on rock musicians who combined symphony and pop music in the 60s and 70s
  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30205

    #2
    Do not apologise, IRF - in any case, you never know who might be lurking and glad of that tip!
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • Boilk
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 976

      #3
      Originally posted by french frank View Post
      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.

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      • Boilk
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 976

        #4
        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..."

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        • cloughie
          Full Member
          • Dec 2011
          • 22110

          #5
          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          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!

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