How many British companies do this? https://www.mail.com/int/entertainme...72-stage-ss1-2
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... of course there used to be the brass bands at t'mills, &c.
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This was by no means unknown in Britain. Listers Mill in Bradford (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lister_Mills) certainly had a works orchestra in the inter-war years; I have dim recollections of people talking about it when I wer' a lad and playing in amateur orchestras. By all accounts it did play symphonic music as well as music for functions at the mill. There does seem also to have been some kind of professional, or semi-professional, symphony orchestra operating in Bradford in those days. I think that the players would have been from the various live theatres who came together to play orchestral music on Sundays when the theatres were 'dark'.Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... of course there used to be the brass bands at t'mills, &c.
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Have a look at: http://www.leodis.net/discovery/disc...0482_197735012
The Northern Philharmonic was the precursor of the late lamented Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra and I think that the players for this would also have come from the Leeds Theatres; I knew two of their horn players: Tommy Tasker, whose main job was in the pit of Leeds Grand Theatre up to when they did away with a permanent orchestra in the late 50s, and Charlie Cadden. Charlie had given up playing the horn when I knew him (in the 70s - Tommy was deceased by then) but conducted an amateur orchestra in Leeds with which I twice played a Mozart Concerto. If only I had recorded those chats with him!
Also living in my village was a viola player called Rowland Baxter who, late in life, had married a distant cousin of my grandfather's. He had been a woolcomber (possibly at Listers), had gained orchestral experience on the side and was a good enough player to become a professional and join the YSO. When it folded he went back to woolcombing and also conducted the local amaeur orchestra.
So, all you poncy southerners, it's not all brass bands, whippets and coal in the bath oop 'ere!
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My previous post on this topic proved a hit (not!)
Have a look at this: http://slippedisc.com/2017/12/is-you...the-orchestra/Comment
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