tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post116325637443461440..comments2008-10-14T06:50:12.158+01:00Pliablenoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1164145841816723282006-11-21T21:50:00.000Z2006-11-21T21:50:00.000Z2006-11-21T21:50:00.000ZAn email pointing out an error by me, now corrected:<BR/><BR/><I>Oops! He actually wrote 12 symphonies. No. 12 had its British premiere in Worcester Cathedral (1990?) at the Three Choirs Festival (I was there!). It will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 'Afternoon Performance' this coming Thursday (21 Nov 2006) 2-4pm.<BR/><BR/>Graham Eagland</I>Pliablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1163451896152750832006-11-13T21:04:00.000Z2006-11-13T21:04:00.000Z2006-11-13T21:04:00.000Z<A HREF="http://www.amazonpr.co.uk/britishlegion/podcasts/two_minutes_silence_remembrance_2006.mp3" REL="nofollow">This link</A> will take you to the Remembrance Sunday podcast from the British Legion website.Pliablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1163407105959779012006-11-13T08:38:00.000Z2006-11-13T08:38:00.000Z2006-11-13T08:38:00.000Z<B>In praise of... George Lloyd</B> – yesterday <I>On An Overgrown Path</I> and today in a <A HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1946154,00.html<br/>" REL="nofollow">Guardian leader</A><BR/><BR/><I>Monday November 13, 2006<BR/>The Guardian <BR/>"A man of the moment" a classical music magazine called him some 20 years ago; but if George Lloyd's music was commanding more attention in the mid-1980s than it had been for most of his composing life, that reflected less a revival than a previous neglect, which had driven him at one point to take up market gardening. Enthusiasts for the music of this composer, who was born in Cornwall in 1913 and died in 1998, have tended to blame his lack of recognition on the reign, as BBC controller of music, of William Glock, who had firm-to-implacable views on whose music deserved airtime and whose did not. Lloyd, like Edmund Rubbra, Berthold Goldschmidt and Robert Simpson, belonged to the second group. Today's Radio 3, thank goodness, is not given to chauvinism; it does not try to pretend that the pantheon of great composers is heavily staffed by Britons. Yet it is now ready to atone for past neglect of home-grown composers. A Simpson symphony was the chosen subject for the Saturday morning Building a Library feature last month, and this week Lloyd is given the rare accolade by being installed as composer of the week - as well as having three more of his symphonies featured in Afternoon Performance. That makes him at least as much a man of the moment as he ever was during his lifetime, while giving us a rare chance to decide for ourselves whether the indifference shown to him for much of his life was deserved, or, as fans of his rich, romantic style would say, disgraceful. </I>Pliablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com