Photos of Composers/other Musicians!

[Nick Armstrong]

Posted before but worth reposting:

1) touching photo (esp this week) of Jehan Alain and his little sister Marie-Claire






2) jovial one of Ben and Dmitri

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There is a lovely photo from the 1989 Huddersfield Festival of Cage, Messiaen and Boulez together, which I don't know how to get from the book on my lap onto this site on my laptop. Cage and Boulez are beamingly shaking hands, clearly delighted to see each other after years of estrnagement. Messiaen is in the middle, leaning towards Boulez and looking at Cage as if he's the very devil incarnate.

Explosions in November, Richard Steinitz's history of the Huddersfield Festival is a treasure trove of photographs of many of the most important composers since the Second World War and their performers, most of them caught candidly by the camera. The Cage, Messiaen, Boulez photo is on page 120, and there's also a delightful photo of Lachenmann and Rihm sharing a brolley on page 163; it's not just "explosions" in November in Huddersfield - the book also tells of how Henze, on his first visit from his Italian home, spent most of his first day trying to find a shop that would sell him some thermal underwear!

[mercia]

C, B & M ?

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/489062840755514822/

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

C, B & M ?
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/489062840755514822/

c'est it! Many thanks, mercs.

Thinking about it (belatedly as is my wont - and if it won't, it won't) it's not exactly what most people would call "everyday life" as the Thread title means it. But for these people, it is!

[EdgeleyRob]

Some super pics both familiar and unfamiliar,thanks guys.

I don't know why it should be so,but somehow I find old photos of British composers really touching.

Elgar chillin'



Boult,Tippett and the main man

[Roslynmuse]

There is a lovely photo from the 1989 Huddersfield Festival of Cage, Messiaen and Boulez together, which I don't know how to get from the book on my lap onto this site on my laptop. Cage and Boulez are beamingly shaking hands, clearly delighted to see each other after years of estrnagement. Messiaen is in the middle, leaning towards Boulez and looking at Cage as if he's the very devil incarnate.

Explosions in November, Richard Steinitz's history of the Huddersfield Festival is a treasure trove of photographs of many of the most important composers since the Second World War and their performers, most of them caught candidly by the camera. The Cage, Messiaen, Boulez photo is on page 120, and there's also a delightful photo of Lachenmann and Rihm sharing a brolley on page 163; it's not just "explosions" in November in Huddersfield - the book also tells of how Henze, on his first visit from his Italian home, spent most of his first day trying to find a shop that would sell him some thermal underwear!

I remember driving across the Pennines one Sunday afternoon in November 1989 (19th or 26th?) to Huddersfield for a BBCSO concert conducted by Boulez which included La ville d'en haut (UK premiere? Yvonne Loriod on piano), Messagesquisse, Chant du Rossignol and original version of Symphonies of Wind Instruments and possibly one other piece which has just slipped my memory. I was sitting behind the trombones on the choir seats in the Town Hall, and had a great view of Messiaen in the audience - a marvellous moment of musical history in the making.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Photographs of Boulez in rehearsal and the composer standing to take a bow on page 38, Roslyn.

I'm quite jealous - my own annual visits to Huddersfield didn't begin until eight years later.

[mercia]

I wonder which work is under scrutiny here

http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/HU040694/michael-tippett-with-adrian-bolt?popup=1

I can't decide if this is a single photo or a composite of several

http://kikawright.tumblr.com/post/941430917/samuel-barber-igor-stravinsky-lukas-foss-aaron

[Pabmusic]

I wonder which work is under scrutiny here
http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-ph...n-bolt?popup=1...

It's the Second Symphony, whose premiere Boult gave in February 1958 at the RFH. It's notorious. The orchestra (BBC SO) broke down very quickly. Boult stopped them, turned to the audience and said something like, "I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen. That was entirely my fault. We shall begin again".

EdgeleyRob has a picture of the broadcast sessions immediately following the premiere. See post 41.

[Pabmusic]

...I can't decide if this is a single photo or a composite of several
http://kikawright.tumblr.com/post/94...kas-foss-aaron

It's probably genuine. They recorded l'Histoire du Soldat with Stravinsky:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Sony/88697884142

[mercia]

EdgeleyRob has a picture of the broadcast sessions immediately following the premiere. See post 41.

oh I see. Sorry to be a bit dim, was something of VW's being performed in the same concert (otherwise why was he there?) ?

[Roslynmuse]

It's probably genuine. They recorded l'Histoire du Soldat with Stravinsky:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Sony/88697884142

Les noces, I think.

[Pabmusic]

oh I see. Sorry to be a bit dim, was something of VW's being performed in the same concert (otherwise why was he there?) ?

The photo appears in "RVW A Pictorial Biography" (OUP 1971) by John E. Lunn & Ursula VW. It says it's a rehearsal at Maida Vale of the 2nd Symphony. RVW was a friend of the young Tippett and had appeared at the tribunal adjudicating on Tippett's refusal to 'join up' during WW2. Maybe he just wanted to listen.

[Pabmusic]

Les noces, I think.

Indeed.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's the Second Symphony, whose premiere Boult gave in February 1958 at the RFH. It's notorious. The orchestra (BBC SO) broke down very quickly. Boult stopped them, turned to the audience and said something like, "I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen. That was entirely my fault. We shall begin again".

EdgeleyRob has a picture of the broadcast sessions immediately following the premiere. See post 41.

Yes - and it does look as if they're discussing the opening pages of the score where things went wrong. (Not really Boult's fault - other than he allowed himself to believe that the Leader Paul Beard's re-barring of these opening bars would be to the benefit of the performance.) I wonder if Tippett is saying "If you'd played it the way I'd written it you wouldn't've had to apologize!"