What was the First Orchestral Concert that you Attended?

[P. G. Tipps]

Northumbrian pipes are not real pipes ... they're English.

[MrGongGong]

Northumbrian pipes are not real pipes ... they're English.

Not the "everything wonderful in the world was invented in Scotland" nonsense again

[Beef Oven!]

Not the "everything wonderful in the world was invented in Scotland" nonsense again

Agreed. For example, Whisky is actually an English invention.

[MrGongGong]

Agreed. For example, Whisky is actually an English invention.

As is Buckfast wine

[P. G. Tipps]

Not the "everything wonderful in the world was invented in Scotland" nonsense again

Hmmmmm ... dunno about the 'nonsense' bit ....

[Beef Oven!]

As is Buckfast wine

No-one wants to drink that horse-piss anyway.

[Beef Oven!]

Huh!? where u go, ts?

[teamsaint]

Huh!? where u go, ts?

Checking my rules of grammar,after I suggested that Horse Piss doesnt have a hyphen......

[Beef Oven!]

Checking my rules of grammar,after I suggested that Horse Piss doesnt have a hyphen......

Grammar, ok. Check your punctuation too.

[P. G. Tipps]

Agreed. For example, Whisky is actually an English invention.

Really ... ?

Well, make up your own spelling like us and the Irish!

[MrGongGong]

Checking my rules of grammar,after I suggested that Horse Piss doesnt have a hyphen......

What about "Horse Rotorvator" (wrong thread though)

as you were

(can we talk about horn playing again ?)

[teamsaint]

Grammar, ok. Check your punctuation too.

I do 1960s punctuation.

[Beef Oven!]

I do 1960s punctuation.

Spaces, commas.

Spaces,commas.

[P. G. Tipps]

About 1955 .. dragged along by my dear old dad to see him play viola in the Glasgow Amateur Orchestra at the old, wonderful St Andrew Halls in the west end of Glasgow.

Haven't a clue as to the programme but I do remember the conductor was an 'older' (and I mean older!) white-haired gentleman called 'Mr Conn' .... I think he was about 90 years old then, which is really no age for a conductor, eh?

[Once Was 4]

That sounds like Ken Monks. Came from Wigan and swore to us that Wigan did have a pier. (and the best Rugby League side in the UK).

Lovely chap!
He left us to join the BBC Northern Orchestra (Now the BBC Philharmonic) and stayed with them until his retirement.

If he is still around, please give him my best wishes!

HS

Yes he is and I will! He also played in the RLPO for some years. And talk of bagpipes prompts my rapidly fading memory again: some people may know the 'Bryn Terfel Sings Rogers and Hammerstein' CD on Deutsche Grammophon. The Opera North Orchestra and Chorus provided the 'backing' and it was recorded in Bolton Town Hall (chosen by the record company as the best acoustic for recording in the environs of Manchester where Opera North were performing in the evenings that week). We did two sessions per day over four days and then went into Manchester for the evening shows. Yours truly was on 4th horn where such was needed (about half the CD and just a few notes per track - nice easy days spent mainly reading the newspaper). I was outside the hall chatting to the orchestral manager when somebody came out and said that the engineers were complaining that there was a funny noise coming from somewhere outside the hall. I helped him scout around and discovered that there was a bagpipe player - kilt, sporran, the lot - busking in the central shopping area. Our intrepid manager went out to shoo him away but got the response "I have got a license to play here and I am not budging!" Afterwards he said that the annual negotiations with the Musicians Union were a doddle compared with the fee that he had to negotiate to send an irate Scotsman on his way!