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  • amateur51

    What F

    Conducted his first concert in Kiev in 1914 aged 7?

    Was related to Mahler?

    Conducted the earliest of four recordings of a concerto made by a Tchaikovsky prize-winner?

    Conducted the opening concert at Butlin’s holiday camp in Filey?

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    • Dave2002
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 18006

      Blast! Done it again! Anatole Fistoulari.

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      • amateur51

        Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
        Blast! Done it again! Anatole Fistoulari.
        Ber-ber-ber-limey Dave!

        Care to elaborate?

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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920




          did you know/read the funny anecdote about the Butlin's concert?

          At the age of seven Anatole Fistoulari conducted Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony in his home city, Kiev. Thirty years later, in 1944, he was appointed principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, celebrating his marriage to Anna Mahler by directing her father Gustav's Fourth Symphony. He had a contract for 120 concerts that year. It seemed as if his career was made.

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          • amateur51

            Originally posted by mercia View Post



            did you know/read the funny anecdote about the Butlin's concert?

            http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pe...i-1597404.html
            It's a cracker, mercia!

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26506

              Originally posted by mercia View Post



              did you know/read the funny anecdote about the Butlin's concert?

              http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pe...i-1597404.html
              What a cracking obit, thanks! One reads it and wonders whether it's not a spoof, until one remembers that Fisty did indeed marry Mahler's daughter...
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • salymap
                Late member
                • Nov 2010
                • 5969

                Can't play your clever game but great to read about Fistoulari. He came into the music library in the 40s and 50s and always spread his arms wide and said "ME, I am Fistooooolari". A great character.

                Excuse intrusion please

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                • amateur51

                  Originally posted by salymap View Post
                  Can't play your clever game but great to read about Fistoulari. He came into the music library in the 40s and 50s and always spread his arms wide and said "ME, I am Fistooooolari". A great character.

                  Excuse intrusion please
                  Great story, as always salymap

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                  • Dave2002
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 18006

                    Rachmaninov, concerto 3, Ashkenazy, Fistoulari, LSO.

                    I think the other parts have already been addressed in the website pointed out.

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                    • amateur51

                      Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                      Rachmaninov, concerto 3, Ashkenazy, Fistoulari, LSO.

                      I think the other parts have already been addressed in the website pointed out.
                      Top man, dave2002!

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                      • Anna

                        Hello. I am back, after sampling the fleshpots of the South Coast. Goodness, from first glance, it's been busy and quite esoteric. Oh, I see merce has updated the AA list, well done! What has happened to rubbers, has he fallen off his velocipede again?

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                        • amateur51

                          Originally posted by Anna View Post
                          Hello. I am back, after sampling the fleshpots of the South Coast. Goodness, from first glance, it's been busy and quite esoteric. Oh, I see merce has updated the AA list, well done! What has happened to rubbers, has he fallen off his velocipede again?
                          Great to have you back, Anna. South coast of where?

                          Angle is on his hols in the fleshpots of Kirkcudbright and rubbers, IGI, Ofcachap and sundry others have gorn missing. Vints pops up from time-to-time, as does Caliban, but it's been down to mercia and dave2002 n lickle ol' me most recently.

                          Stick around and show us how it should be done, Anna

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                          • Anna

                            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                            Great to have you back, Anna. South coast of where?:
                            Ams, Brighton. Home of the psychotic seagulls and, the Gay Capitol of the South. Anyway, tremendous fun. I came back with a Jarvis Cocker (bought at a market for £2) and some Halva. And a tan. And, oh, I met the grandson of the songwriter who wrote Nellie the Elephant and Run Rabbit Run and half the Gilbert & Sullivan chorus boys!!

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                            • Dave2002
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 18006

                              Shall I go on with G?

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                              • Anna

                                Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                                Shall I go on with G?
                                Why not? don't be coy.

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