The Early Music Legend

  After a long period of absence  from Radio 4 for reasons I shall not disclose "by chance" I turned it on...and lo and behold what do I get..a music programme in which Simon Rattle reveals that the reason why he entered the music profession was because of  Pied Piper which was introduced by David Munrow!  Moreover, there was reference to Nicholas Kenyon who helped to "popularise" the latter and his work. Indeed, references to this can be found in the link below.. A wikipedia entry is also included here.  RS/Blogger Google links   Nicholas Kenyon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Kenyon's voice 0:19 recorded 2012, as part of an  audio description of Postman's Park  for  VocalEyes Problems playing this file? See  media help . Sir Nicholas Roger Kenyon   CBE  (born 23 February 1951, in  Cheshire ) is an English music administrator, editor and writer on music. He was responsible for the...

From a paper on Authenticity, and Early Music, (page 3) by Nicholas Kenyon plus link      http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&docId=9546594 In 1968 the work of David Munrow's Early Music Consort of London was taking on an international dimension with its first tours and recordings, and over the next few years it succeeded in galvanizing audiences with its highly professionalized skills and invigorating performance style. Munrow had burst upon an unsuspecting world in May 1965, when he first assembled a Renaissance dance band to play Susato Danserye at Birming- ham University, and from then on his professional career, powered by driving enthusiasm and hard work, made remark- able strides. It is chronicled in the recordings he made for EMI--first of Morley and Susato, and then Ecco la primavera in 1969, Music of the Crusades in 1971, The Triumphs of Maximilian I in 1973, The Art of Courtly Love, and, as vocal music became more important to him, two major projects which ap...