That photo shows a 1970 Kingsway Hall session for the EMI recording of Vaughan Williams' The Pilgrim's Progress . From left to right are Ursula Vaughan Williams, Christopher Bishop (producer), Sir Adrian Boult , John Noble , Ian Partridge, Gloria Jennings, Christopher Parker (balance engineer), John Alldis (chorus master), Sheila Armstrong and Marie Hayward. During his career at EMI Christopher Bishop produced legendary recordings with Sir John Barbirolli, André Previn, Sir David Willcocks , David Munrow, Carlo Maria Giulini, Sir Adrian Boult and many others. Christopher was born on April 1st 1931; he is enjoying a well-earned retirement in rural Suffolk not far from Aldeburgh, and I am sure readers will join me in wishing him a very happy birthday. It is a scandal that in an age when so many minor media celebrities receive recognition with State honours that Christopher Bishop's contribution to British and indeed global culture has never been recognised with a suit
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I'm now working on Maurice Ohana, Edmund Rubbra, Valentin Silvestrov and Malcolm Arnold designs.
As are the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Simon Rattle ... need I go on?
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Askonas Holt also jump-started Gustvo Dudamel's career, but he recently defected to Van Walsum Management whose website says:
“Artist management at Van Walsum goes beyond the ‘booking agent’ of the past decades to encompass total career planning, including the co-ordination of an artist’s audio and audiovisual recordings, broadcasts and the handling of digital rights as an essential part of the management process”.
http://www.vanwalsum.com/dudamel_joins_vwm.php
Recently I discovered the polish – russian composer Weinberg.
Friend of Shostakovich.
I went to a concert of the Danel Quartet, quator Danel ( BRU/ Be). They played Ligeti.
However they recorded Weinberg. The string quartets.
See : http://www.quatuordanel.com/ , new release. http://www.quatuordanel.com/discographie.html
Who is Mieczyslaw Weinberg ?
Have a look at Wiki. In EN : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczys%C5%82aw_Weinberg
And Naxos released his string quartets as well.
http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/Mieczyslaw_Weinberg/18538.htm
Many apologies. It was one of my poorly nuanced jokes (a day early?) which rudely ignored the fact that English is not the native language of many readers. Apologies for any embarassment caused, the misleading text has now been removed.
T shirt companies wanting to license the design can contact me at overgrown path dot ....