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Author: Nessie1
Date: 2022-10-24 20:09
Forgive me if some of you already know this, but I have just watched the classic Morecambe and Wise clip with Andre Previn ("Grieg's Piano Concerto - By Grieg" "I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order") and who should I spy in the orchestra - none other than Jack Brymer!
I don't know whether the orchestra (not creditted on the version I saw) were the actual LSO, of which Previn was, I think principal conductor at the time, in which case Brymer was also principal clarinet so you would expect him to be there, or whether it was an orchestra put together for the event.
Any thoughts? Any other interesting sightings of top players?
Vanessa.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2022-10-25 07:37
You can hear and just make out toward the end (leaning on his trumpet) the great Maurice Murphy. He was probably the greatest trumpet player ever. In fact when you listen to any of the original Star Wars scores or Indiana Jones scores the fabulously glowing trumpet sound that soars above it all is Maurice Murphy playing the parts written specifically for him by John Williams.
There was a great little story of Leonard Bernstein conducting one of his works with the London Symphony and he stops just before a rather ethereal and critical trumpet solo and says to Murphy, "Ok hot shot, how are you going to play that?" Murphy replied, "You tell me, you're the one who wrote the bloody thing!"
............Paul Aviles
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Author: JohnP
Date: 2022-10-25 12:03
Here’s the story behind the sketch.
https://www.comedy.co.uk/features/comedy_chronicles/andre-previn-prelude-preview/
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Author: donald
Date: 2022-10-29 03:25
Another "spot the clarinettist" moment that comes to mind is the film Waiting for Guffman (an early one by the team that brought you "Spinal Tap" and "Best in Show").
If you watch carefully you will notice Richard McDowell (for many years the clarinet guru at that University in Austin Texas, and a pretty fine clarinet player) on clarinet in a couple of scenes.
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