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		<title>The Fourth Conductor &#8211; Sir Henry Wood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a fourth conductor that David would have added to this list that of Sir Henry J. Wood. In his teens and until he was called up to serve in the British Army David joined the audience at London&#8217;s Queens Hall for the Henry Wood Promenade concerts each summer. It was a musical education for David (as it was to be for me 30 years later when &#8220;Flash&#8221; wielded the baton at the Proms, by then moved to the Royal Albert Hall). Wood&#8217;s clear beat from a long stick he held and his fearsome eyes produced astonishing performances from under rehearsed orchestras.Adrian Boult another long stick conductor was also held in high regard by David except for Tchaikovsky, a favourite  composer for Boult, but certainly not with David! One day I drove David to meet a record collector friend in Dulwich. Sat in my friend&#8217;s lounge completely dominated by an EMG  gramophone with a 3ft diameter horn, David listened to early acoustic recordings made by Wood. My friend then produced the full orchestral score of Sibelius En Saga and David eyes lit up when he found it contained the blue pencil marks of Sir Henry for it was Sir  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conductors Great and Small</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[His Gods were his Gods. No arguments allowed. His Villains, either through imagined incompetence or banality, were to be universally condemned by me, my family, and by any friends I could ask. Any photographs of the Villains going about their legitimate business on the podium were to be held aloft for general merriment. Herbert von Karajan, who according to David, had conducted in Jackboots, was the most villainous of all Villains with Betty Blackhead  (Elizabeth Schwarzkopf) coming a close second . A Villain of lesser consequence  was Edward Heath (always ‘the Grocer’ to David) whose portly form and political behaviour David held in contempt. “But David, doesn’t Edward Heath conduct competently? He is a knowledgeable musician.”   David knew it was a wind up, so he chose to guffaw rather than have a rattling good tirade. I sensed he was not a little jealous at Heath being entrusted with the European Youth Orchestra. Sir Andrew Davis was a good example of a musician who had become a Villain in David’s eyes through &#8220;his lacklustre performances, his musical caution  and general complacency &#8221; Any appearance, in any role, playing any music,  was greeted with a snort and a scowl. The only pleasure [...]]]></description>
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