{"id":678,"date":"2020-04-16T16:01:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=678"},"modified":"2024-03-15T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T16:44:12","slug":"my-orchestral-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/my-orchestral-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"My Orchestral Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s music is the Overture to Prince Igor by Borodin.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Soon after I sat my higher music exam I was &#8220;strongly encouraged&#8221; to go to one of the Glasgow School&#8217;s summer music courses. At that time there were five &#8211; three orchestras, a concert band and a brass band. I had never been to anything like that, but was persuaded to audition.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; to my first ever &#8216;real&#8217; orchestral concert &#8211; I have explained before that the school orchestra wasn&#8217;t a &#8216;normal&#8217; one. Prince Igor opened the programme, so this, I guess, was my debut in the orchestral world that would prove a big part of my life for many years.\u00a0 This concert was almost 50 years ago now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-center width80\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/jimages\/roth%20poster.jpg\" alt=\"rothesay poster\" \/><\/div>\n<p>There is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/mozart-in-rothesay\/\">much longer version<\/a>\u00a0of this story in the anecdotes. I should say that this is NOT a recording of the concert &#8211; although I do have one on an old tape reel which I haven&#8217;t listened to for years.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AkTPOkSfOWE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexander Borodin : Prince Igor Overture<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AkTPOkSfOWE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nigel Baillie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reading your post, I was reminded of when, as a young lad, I used to go with my folks when they would visit your own mum &#038; dad in Penilee. You were of course somewhat older than me \ud83d\ude09 but I rarely saw you on any of these visits because you were always in your room listening to classical music on your headphones \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Milligan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think there was a &#8216;Jazz&#8217; course as well. I remember during fortnight there was an evening where each section of the orchestra had to do a party piece.<\/p>\n<p><strong>George R McConnell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There may well have been &#8211; but I don&#8217;t remember it &#8211; I do remember the &#8220;talent night&#8221; though with everyone doing their party piece. Most were great &#8211; I was on the staff at the concert band for several years &#8211; some were cringeworthy\ud83d\ude02<br \/>\nI do particularly remember a conducting competition the year I was at Castle Toward &#8211; the conductor (John Carewe) was the judge and when one of the trumpet players was having his go I well remember John being doubled up in laughter behind one of the pillars\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s music is the Overture to Prince Igor by Borodin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[100,106],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-orchestral","tag-romantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}