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« Reply #60 on: August 10, 2021, 02:05:06 pm »

I've just discovered that a snippet of SC-T's Solemn Prelude was played on BBC Radio 3's "In Tune" on 23 July. There's not enough of a sample to make any type of qualitative judgments but just a few bars of harmony and orchestration leave one in no doubt about who composed this! It can be found here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000y1cd 1 hour 27 minutes in but be quick because it will vanish soon.

Just in case we never hear it again, I've uploaded an mp3 of this tantalising excerpt (recorded in rehearsal) to BIMA.

 :)



Ugh! Far worse than cats, think this one's from Cheshire...



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Thank you. I do hope we hear the whole thing again soon.
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« Reply #61 on: August 10, 2021, 02:31:02 pm »

I've just discovered that a snippet of SC-T's Solemn Prelude was played on BBC Radio 3's "In Tune" on 23 July. There's not enough of a sample to make any type of qualitative judgments but just a few bars of harmony and orchestration leave one in no doubt about who composed this! It can be found here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000y1cd 1 hour 27 minutes in but be quick because it will vanish soon.

Just in case we never hear it again, I've uploaded an mp3 of this tantalising excerpt (recorded in rehearsal) to BIMA.

 :)

Thank you. I do hope we hear the whole thing again soon.

Indeed! What a shame the orchestral parts were lost for such a long time, otherwise it might have been recorded before now, possibly in the 1990s when Argo were active in resurrecting C-T: Ballade in A minor, Symphonic Variations (whatever happened to Grant Llewellyn? You never hear of him recording now though he's only 60)

 ???

and a complete Hiawatha (Kenneth Alwyn is excused such enquiry as he died in 2020 aged 95).

https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/12/obituary-conductor-kenneth-alwyn/

 :(

Another opportunity for a well-deserved knighthood missed - why are we so crap at publicly recognising our native conductors (Thomson, Handley, Hickox, etc.) during their lifetime, when they devote so much labour to preserving our heritage? Wood, Beecham, Boult, Barbirolli, Groves, Davis and Rattle were duly honoured, but few others have been given "the gong". Arise, Sir Martyn Brabbins, Sir John Andrews, Sir David Lloyd-Jones, Sir John Wilson and Sir Martin Yates...

 ;D

Sir Bill Gates, Sir Ronald Reagan, Sir George H.W. Bush, Sir Bono, all honorary but who makes these (no doubt well-financed) decisions. Hmmmmm.......



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« Reply #62 on: August 10, 2021, 04:40:22 pm »

I've just discovered that a snippet of SC-T's Solemn Prelude was played on BBC Radio 3's "In Tune" on 23 July. There's not enough of a sample to make any type of qualitative judgments but just a few bars of harmony and orchestration leave one in no doubt about who composed this! It can be found here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000y1cd 1 hour 27 minutes in but be quick because it will vanish soon.

Just in case we never hear it again, I've uploaded an mp3 of this tantalising excerpt (recorded in rehearsal) to BIMA.

 :)

Thank you. I do hope we hear the whole thing again soon.

Indeed! What a shame the orchestral parts were lost for such a long time, otherwise it might have been recorded before now, possibly in the 1990s when Argo were active in resurrecting C-T: Ballade in A minor, Symphonic Variations (whatever happened to Grant Llewellyn? You never hear of him recording now though he's only 60)

 ???

and a complete Hiawatha (Kenneth Alwyn is excused such enquiry as he died in 2020 aged 95).

https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/12/obituary-conductor-kenneth-alwyn/

 :(

Another opportunity for a well-deserved knighthood missed - why are we so crap at publicly recognising our native conductors (Thomson, Handley, Hickox, etc.) during their lifetime, when they devote so much labour to preserving our heritage? Wood, Beecham, Boult, Barbirolli, Groves, Davis and Rattle were duly honoured, but few others have been given "the gong". Arise, Sir Martyn Brabbins, Sir John Andrews, Sir David Lloyd-Jones, Sir John Wilson and Sir Martin Yates...

 ;D

Sir Bill Gates, Sir Ronald Reagan, Sir George H.W. Bush, Sir Bono, all honorary but who makes these (no doubt well-financed) decisions. Hmmmmm.......



 :-\



They, whoever they are, seem more willing to bestow honorary knighthoods on foreign conductors, such as André Previn and Bernard Haitink, than on our own. It's not that I begrudge those gentlement the titles; I don't. Indeed, I feel they entirely deserved them, but British conductors should get their proper reward too, as they did in earlier times.
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