Forty years ago, there were four UK TV channels and they often produced programmes of this quality. Now we have a myriad of channels and none of them produce any programmes of this quality. A strange kind of progress.
In part due to a slip in standards of education . For instance , not all schools value music : no singing assemblies, peripatetic instrumental teaching etc . Interest and talent needs to be nurtured .
7.56 I am one of the boys running towards the boy's entrance at Werneth School. 9 y.o., Turquoise tank top! Spring/summer 1980, I think. As I remember, 2 blokes just turned up in a car, told us lads we were going to be on 'telly', and set the camera up! Don't recall any of the teachers being present, though I am sure everything would have been arranged. 42 years ago now, seems like milliseconds!
I'm the boy with the white plastic bag at 6:23 :) I remember walking past the film crew and wondering why they were filming there. I later tuned into the show when it was broadcast because Walton was from my home town and his sister-in-law was actually my piano teacher at the time, so I knew Walton's brother personally. And it was a shock to see myself there in the film - and I've only just seen it again today after 41 years.
20:00 I love the decision the programme-makers took to show Walton's changing circumstances through his letters, being read first by an Oldham boy, then by a voice suggesting he had shed his accent. I miss the style of the South Bank Show, that really let a subject unfold slowly.
A truly remarkable composer. Wish I could have met him. He was unique in the history of British music. There will never, ever be another Wiliiam Walton.
Jeez Ant - LWT. Where do you trawl this great stuff? This weekly show was a much anticipated treat of a Sunday evening waaay back in the day . . . You seem to have divined the most delectable and nostalgic lodes of our national musical canon. Respect and admiration.
Forty years ago, there were four UK TV channels and they often produced programmes of this quality. Now we have a myriad of channels and none of them produce any programmes of this quality. A strange kind of progress.
I'm always saying this. 4 channels of interesting quality programs, and now 50 thousand channels of utter shite!
In part due to a slip in standards of education . For instance , not all schools value music : no singing assemblies, peripatetic instrumental teaching etc . Interest and talent needs to be nurtured .
thank you for uploading this gem… very informative - Crown Imperial is one of my favorite orchestral pieces.
7.56 I am one of the boys running towards the boy's entrance at Werneth School. 9 y.o., Turquoise tank top! Spring/summer 1980, I think. As I remember, 2 blokes just turned up in a car, told us lads we were going to be on 'telly', and set the camera up! Don't recall any of the teachers being present, though I am sure everything would have been arranged. 42 years ago now, seems like milliseconds!
I'm the boy with the white plastic bag at 6:23 :) I remember walking past the film crew and wondering why they were filming there. I later tuned into the show when it was broadcast because Walton was from my home town and his sister-in-law was actually my piano teacher at the time, so I knew Walton's brother personally. And it was a shock to see myself there in the film - and I've only just seen it again today after 41 years.
20:00 I love the decision the programme-makers took to show Walton's changing circumstances through his letters, being read first by an Oldham boy, then by a voice suggesting he had shed his accent. I miss the style of the South Bank Show, that really let a subject unfold slowly.
A truly remarkable composer. Wish I could have met him. He was unique in the history of British music. There will never, ever be another Wiliiam Walton.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Masterful and higlhly poetic
Jeez Ant - LWT. Where do you trawl this great stuff? This weekly show was a much anticipated treat of a Sunday evening waaay back in the day . . .
You seem to have divined the most delectable and nostalgic lodes of our national musical canon. Respect and admiration.
rightmarker1 In these posts I just share other RUclipsrs’ efforts in digging up the goods! I always credit them.
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