Let me explain:
In 1941, I was eight years old and still in junior school but my elder brother was at Beckenham Grammar School and he took me along to hear a concert by the School's orchestra, whose Music Master and Director was the famous Dr Hubert Clifford.
I can't remember whether there was an overture but I do recall a chubby little thirteen-year-old, called Hugh Bean, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.
After the interval (prolongued by an unscheduled Air Raid warning) the orchestra reassembled to play the final work - Mozart's Jupiter Symphony.
I will never forget the thrilling impact of those first three bars. I was truly "hooked on classics" long before the cult following of Nº 40 in G minor achieved brief popularity in the seventies.
Possibly, this symphony - or at least a part of it, made its way into other school orchestra's repertoires and I wonder if anyone else first encountered its magic that way.
Hornspieler
In 1941, I was eight years old and still in junior school but my elder brother was at Beckenham Grammar School and he took me along to hear a concert by the School's orchestra, whose Music Master and Director was the famous Dr Hubert Clifford.
I can't remember whether there was an overture but I do recall a chubby little thirteen-year-old, called Hugh Bean, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.
After the interval (prolongued by an unscheduled Air Raid warning) the orchestra reassembled to play the final work - Mozart's Jupiter Symphony.
I will never forget the thrilling impact of those first three bars. I was truly "hooked on classics" long before the cult following of Nº 40 in G minor achieved brief popularity in the seventies.
Possibly, this symphony - or at least a part of it, made its way into other school orchestra's repertoires and I wonder if anyone else first encountered its magic that way.
Hornspieler