Unlikely Musical Combinations

[Hornspieler]

The setting is the New Coventry Cathedral. The orchestra is the CBSO. BBC Television are there to record a concert which includes a Mozart Piano Concerto. The soloist is the comedian Dudley Moore. I was there, and I was able to watch myself on TV a few days later, tearing into that storm in Britten's Four Sea Interludes, which was the last item on the programme.

Does anyone else remember it? Late 1969 as I recall, or maybe early 1970.

Brummie humour has always amused me. One old bass player, gazing down at the copper coins set in the marble flagstones was heard to remark "Oi say, that must be Sir Basil's pence!

Can anyone else name some unlikely combination of music, artists and locations?

HS

[amateur51]

Dudley Moore was considerably more than a comedian surely. He was certainly a revue artist, comedy actor, composer, and a film star but more importantly to this forum a fine classical and jazz pianist and organist, having won an organ scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford from Dagenham County High School.

[salymap]

Wish I'd seen your concert with Dudley Moore HS

All I can think of is Danny Kaye, a good musician himself, turfing Malcolm Sargent off the rostrum to conduct the LSO in a bit of the March from Berlioz' Damnation of Faust. He was at the RAH rehearsal to catch up with Artur Rubinstein,a neighbour and friend and soloist that night.

[aeolium]

McFerrin and the VPO at the Proms in 2003?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

One old bass player, gazing down at the copper coins set in the marble flagstones was heard to remark "Oi say, that must be Sir Basil's pence!

[ahinton]

Dudley Moore was considerably more than a comedian surely. He was certainly a revue artist, comedy actor, composer, and a film star but more importantly to this forum a fine classical and jazz pianist and organist, having won an organ scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford from Dagenham County High School.

Indeed he was - and an occasional teacher, too...

[3rd Viennese School]

and his song about the six inch copper pipe is fantastic!


3VS

[Ferretfancy]

Dudley Moore once shared a profile on Monitor, the old BBC arts programme, featuring up and coming young artists. This would have been just about the time when he began in Beyond the Fringe, and he was interviewed in the staff canteen at Ealing, where he proceeded to give us a virtuoso performance on the spoons! ( It's the flick of the wrist that does it )

Oh, and the other young artist featured was Peter Maxwell Davies, who was still a teacher at Cirencester Grammar School at the time.

[Gordon]

Moore's take off of Peter Pears and Britten in Little Miss Muffet is a real gem! Didn't go down well in Suffolk though....

[salymap]

Moore's take off of Peter Pears and Britten in Little Miss Muffet is a real gem! Didn't go down well in Suffolk though....

Yes I heard that recently - it could have been PP

[Flay]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YqgiOj54Ko

[Nick Armstrong]

Wish I'd seen your concert with Dudley Moore HS

Oh so do I !!

All I can think of is Danny Kaye, a good musician himself, turfing Malcolm Sargent off the rostrum to conduct the LSO in a bit of the March from Berlioz' Damnation of Faust. He was at the RAH rehearsal to catch up with Artur Rubinstein, a neighbour and friend and soloist that night.

We've had it before saly, but I love the image. There was a clip of him the last time... so here he is with the NYPO... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTqMi965iB4

[Nick Armstrong]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YqgiOj54Ko

Perfection! Definitely worth posting again!

[Flay]

Perfection! Definitely worth posting again!

I hope it wasn't too piercing for your hangover, Calibs. It is a brilliant imitation. Compare it with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gHTw9XjKMc

[salymap]

Oh so do I !!



We've had it before saly, but I love the image. There was a clip of him the last time... so here he is with the NYPO... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTqMi965iB4

Yes Cali, I've been here since 2007 and my stories are going round the the umpteenth time. Perhaps thereare new members who haven't heard them before