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Allen Harris
Великобритания
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BDOA VP Claire Hobbs presentation Jan 2024
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President-elect Claire Hobbs introduces herself prior to taking up the post in June 2024
The Glenside Hospital Museum Organ
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The organ in what was the Chapel at the Glenside Mental Hospital in Bristol being used in 1975 to accompany a local amateur choir singing the carol "Unto Us is Born a Son"
St Theodulph
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A fantasia on the hymn tune St Theodulph by Rebecca Groome te Velde, played by Alison Howell. The words "All glory, laud and honour to thee, Redeemer, King" are often sung to this tune (EH509).
BDOA Andrew Caskie
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Andrew Caskie, MD of Nicholson & Co, Organ Builders, gives a presentation to members of the Bristol & District Organists' Association. After describing the company and its wide ranging work, he focusses on two major current projects, the organs in Manchester Town Hall and Leeds Town Hall. Recorded in Bristol on Tuesday 7th February 2023.
Nick Sherwood talk Jan 22
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Vice President of the Bristol & District Organists' Association, Nick Sherwood, introduces himself to members prior to becoming President in June 2023. He reveals how his love of the organ and its music started, and was nurtured into an all-embracing appreciation of singing and choral music as well. Even Simon & Garfunkel get a look-in!
60th Birthday weekend
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Celebration weekend in 2003 at Diggerland, and Seaton, Devon.
Childrens Coronation
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In 1953 London Transport provided a service to give schoolchildren front row seats to see the Coronation Procession
Francesca Orlando plays Chopin: Ballade No 4 in F-min Op 52
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Francesca Orlando plays Chopin: Ballade No 4 in F-min Op 52
The 2010 Dick Mayo Castle Combe Sprint
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The 2010 Dick Mayo Castle Combe Sprint
Street party performance of Por Una Cabeza
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Street party performance of Por Una Cabeza
Wonderful performances! It is a shame that Brain is not with us. He set the bar so high for today’s hornists to reach. Thankfully, we have recordings to remember Dennis Brain by.
Great video, thanks for uploading. I’ve heard many times that Previn’s recording is perhaps the greatest, and great to see him work on a piece that is so dear to him. LSO is wisely taking the Walton 1 on tour to the US this season and this is making me very excited to see it
Certainly playing all the right notes, AND in the right order. Just staggeringly good.
Ah ... an absolute gem. Don't know how you came across this, but thank you for posting. Wonderful.
The Flynn scores were the worst.
Thank you for sharing, I am a fan of Hollywood golden age music, and Korngold was a musical genius. He created so much gorgeous melodies for or without the screen.
This is wonderful! A viola player in the Cleveland Orchestra (which played this with Petrenko last year) told me that this is really incredibly difficult to play for the strings................and you perhaps see here in John Georgiadis' interactions with Previn why Szell was not a fan!
I am sure the Cleveland would make short work of this symphony. Thankfully ,Szell recorded the 2nd and other works by Walton. There is alive recording of the violin concerto with Szell,Cleveland and Francescatti.
Wonders happen when the conductor knows the score so well. It doesn't happen very often nowadays by performing modern music. Previn leads the orchestra with in a very simple but very effective way. And it works! Splendid orchestra, amazing winds! Thank you for sharing this precious document
3:12 "Walton began writing his first symphony when he was only 30" Mozart: "Hold my Bier"
An absolute Gem, I once met Benjamin Britter, as a child, introduced to me by my late uncle, the composer Peter Haysom Craddy. My favourite piece of Classical? music, presented here by meastro Sir Malcom Sargent (who always wore a buttonhole, I read)
He had a supreme facility, unmatched to this day. A true genius
Mr Harris, I had forgotten about this video and in truth I sometimes get comments from viewers about videos I had forgotten I had uploaded. That aside I am contacting with regards to your work involving Gilbert O'Sullivan with John Peel in 1968 when you engineered Gilbert's recordings. I had left a message for you on another of your videos asking if you had any or all material for this session. The message was left and I thought no more about until I received a reply either from you or someone else using your page on which you said you would be happy to pass on Gilbert's John Peel sessions. Since then I have had no response. If it was you offering Gilbert's material I am still interested, if you have changed your mind I understand. I would not be selling or passing on anything. Having been in contact with Ray for many years I understand his desire for keeping his non released material safe..... Regards Paul
Hello Paul, and thank you for nagging me and showing that you are still interested! I stand by the offer I made but I haven't been in the best of health for the past month or two which is probably why you haven't heard more from me. But I hadn't forgotten, and indeed only yesterday I searched my old audio files for the session and I plan to convert the original into a series of .WAV and .MP3 files and somehow make them securely available to you. I have a personal website or 'blog' www.harris-bristol.com and you could contact me simply by adding my first name to the domain name to create an email address. Then maybe we could arrange to use a file transfer service. And if that doesn't work don't hesitate to use RUclips comments again. Best wishes, Allen
I heard this played at senior school in the 1980s (a vinyl record) during music lessons. As I have a musical background and blessed with perfect pitch, the key is D minor (it finishes triumphantly in D major). I can play violin and viola, sing alto in a church choir and remember Richard Baker narrating this work.
As you may be aware this piece is performed quite often by college and university orchestras. Probably because it's called "Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra "😆. Be that as it may, it is NOT an easy piece by any means and is quite the challenge even for professional musicians. And you are certainly blessed indeed Angel 🙏. If only I had perfect pitch....
@@resetsetmefree478Yes, I am aware of that fact. Though I could play the viola theme due to it's slow tempo. I have played quite a few demanding pieces at Orchestra over the years, like Dvorak 8th Symphony in G major. The third movement required the violas to soar high in the treble clef, an octave apart. A professional violist came to help out and we played that in tune with me playing the higher octave! She was very impressed with my playing as the octaves were spot on in tune! High praise indeed.
Thanks, very good documentary. Someone know's who's the first violon (leader) who discusses with Prévin ?
At this time the leader of the LSO was John Georgiadis, who sadly passed away 2021.
I was unfamiliar with both of these superb performers...So honored to make their acquaintances!...Will research and listen to more!...Thankyou!
😓 'Promo sm'
always likes Korngold's music and saw the films at the Thalia in NYC years ago. I met Slatkin once when I was in Aspen and a bunch of us got together for music, food and lots of booze. Slatkin and Marty Verdrager, a theory teacher at Juilliard when i was there, were playing a piano 4 hand version on Mahler 5. Great time and great people. This was in 1972.
Thank you! Do you have the equally wonderful Rozsa episode by any chance?
Thanks for your appreciation. And no, I'm sorry I don't have the episode your asked about.
Previn and Walton, pure joy!
I was serving in a military band , on the morning news, on the very same morning it was announced , that Dennis Brain had died in a tragic accident, that will leave the who musical world with a loss that will difficult to fulfill. Indeed the the Philharmonia was renamed the New Philharmonia, Alan Civil leading the horn section. Dennis brain was my hero, before his timely death and still is.💂
So grateful to have found this. I was a student at Windsor Boys' School in the 80s and was extremely lucky to have been taught and influenced greatly by Nick. None of the boys will have had any kind of idea just how deep and wide Nick's life and musical experience ran. A living legend!
Masterpiece
Sir Robert Helpmann explains to all of us what the practice is about. So many think it’s all about what goes into the feet, what the feet do. It's about the whole body moving in a way to the music that doesn't even seem physically possible. Musicality is necessary. Crucial, even. "Bobby" gives us the lowdown. It's been said classical ballet is the hardest. The fact that he did it is a testimony to what he was... and how this should inspire all of us... And to Allen Harris, thanks for keep the legacy alive and burning...
Dane - thank you for your appreciative comment.
Korngold's music is bombastic and emotionally pallid that's why he's almost forgotten today.
A comment of supreme ignorance
A wonderful symphony - one of my favourites
Welch wunderbare Künstler haben wir vertrieben… Gott sei Dank .. gelang es Korngold
How wonderful!!!!! Previn and a group of such talented musicians and a great symphonic work!!
Wonderful show! I saw Slatkin conduct the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl 50 some-odd years ago and it's remained fresh in my memory. The personal reminiscentses of Hollywood, the WB Studio, the music scene, the Allers, the Slatkins, and of course the towering genius Korngold really made an hour go by very quickly. Thank you so much for posting this: what a great gift!
I wanted other people to enjoy this programme as much as I do, so I'm delighted to read your appreciation of it. Thanks very much.
I remember his dad felix
This is just wonderful. Can anybody tell me who the LSO trombone section was at this time?
Denis Wick was principal...if you're talking late 60's into the 70's....
Walton's First Symphony is a colossal masterpiece and an emotional blockbuster. The "best" (I mean most powerful) performance I've ever heard is Previn and LSO; it's very interesting to see them rehearse. A fascinating programme with the insights of the great man himself, William Walton.
Nice to hear this. Walton did wonderful work with the Academy of St Martin's in the Field. BBC produces nothing but pop culture these days, sickening.
Excellent, indeed ! Many thanks. I am captivate.
Just the greatest rendition of young persons guide to the orchestra.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Moira Shearer, seen dancing at the 5:36 mark of this video, is the star of the Powell and Pressburger film “The Red Shoes.” Great movie and it was released as a 4K disc last year.
Not forgetting Tubby the Tuba and Spark's Magic Piano 🤪
you just awoke a memory i haven't had in ages with tubby the tuba
Thank you so much for posting this. Fred was my cello teacher and gave me this recording years ago and unfortunately I lost it while moving. It is so wonderful to see it again, and to remember his fantastic playing and the deep connection between music and the entire family. RIP Dr. Zlotkin
Can you imagine the BBC making such a programme these days?
No I'm afraid I cannot - more's the pity. Thanks for your comment.
Errrrr. No.
Mr. Harris, It has just been brought to my attention as you were the engineer at the BEEB when Gilbert recorded his as far as we know, seven songs. It took me until the 1990's just to track down 3 'I Didn't Know What To Do' Disappear' 'Better Than Valentino'. Are you aware of any other songs Gilbert sang in those sessions and more important are you in a position to pass on what you have.? I have been lucky enough to find many of Gilbert's acetates over the years and would be happy to trade for what you have.
I'm embarrassed to say that I've only just noticed your comment! Apologies. I do have a copy of all the numbers Gilbert recorded on that day which I could pass on if you're still interested.
@@allenharris1661 Hello Mr Harris. I left a message yesterday which appears to have been removed. Just to say thank you I am still interested and look forward to hearing from you...Thank you, 'Paul Yates'
@@allenharris1661 This is just to let you know as I am still interested just in case my last message reminder went your your 'spam' email.
Fascinating . Thank you for this. I wish someone would post the 80th birthday concert with Previn conducting in the RFH.
So happy to find this film. Years ago I had a cassette tape of Sir Malcolm conducting YPGO that I wore out. Brings back wonderful musical memories of my youth. Thank You!
Somehow this commission elicited this inspired work, so full of musical humor at its best. And so it has introduced Britten to millions - "a very good place to start."
How wonderful pure European culture, we should all weep at the way it's looked down on ....
I think I'd heard that Britten had been commissioned to write the Young Person's Guide for a childrens film about the instruments of the orchestra but this is the first time I've seen the film along including what I assume must be the first ever recording/performance of the music played by a vintage LSO. There are a few things which occur to me watching the film which was made in 1946 only a year after the ending of WW2 and slap, bang in the middle of a grey austere Britain which was still in the grip of strict food and materials rationing. Firstly there appear to be very few young players in the orchestra which seems to comprise mostly aged (and some very aged) players. I wonder if this reflects the fact that many musicians hadn't yet been demobbed from the armed forces or the fact that younger and better musicians of the time were being attracted to the 2 newest and better paying (?) of London's orchestras which were both formed in 1946: the RPO under Beecham and the Philharmonia by producer Waler Legge. As far as the orchestra is concerned I find it interesting to see the flutes section are all playing ebony instruments which have pretty much disappeared from the modern symphony orchestra in favour of metal ones which have a greater dynamic range. The horns sound - and there's no other way of putting this - ropey as hell. All the brass appear to be playing the narrow bore instruments of the time and you can hear that sound especially in the trumpets and trombones - I couldn't help noticing the G Bass trombone complete with handle (!) which is extinct in 2023. The hand tuned timpani are equally obsolete today and sound like tuned planks of wood (sorry).
1946 recording technology.
What I love about Previn's conducting is he never lets the tempi get slow or mawkish. This masterpiece of a symphony is packed with emotion so keeping the momentum is crucial.
Sorry not to have been able to attend this event, neither in person, nor online, as I had some important health-related commitments throughout the day. However, thanks to Nick for an interesting talk.
First viewer! I've only just posted this. Glad you enjoyed it. As you might have guessed I've been sorting through my video archive. Who knows what else I might find to share...?!
Nothing like a bit of Wednesday nostalgia!
Thank you! Great film, a pity not so many people saw this!
I agree! Glad you enjoyed it. Spread the word!
Together with the legendary 1963 Stokowski performance the best I ever listened! Sir Malolm and the LSO are brilliant!
Sargent's nickname was "Flash" . When conductor (and renowned wit) Sir Thomas Beecham, on heard that Sargent had been conducting in Tokyo he quipped: "Ah....Flash in Japan!"