The Early Music Legend

         « on: September 07, 2007, 09:11:23 PM »/Beechcomber I started off listening to David Munrow and The Early Music Consort of London in the very early 70’s.  The first recording I heard was his Two Renaissance Dance Bands.  From then on I bought whatever became available. In 1974 I went to see the full consort in action in the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow and the atmosphere was absolutely electric.  The concert started off with Munrow looking out of a side curtain at the side of the stage (presumably to see if any technician etc was fiddling about with the mics) and, when he found that the coast was clear, he raced up the few stairs onto the stage and started to play a Danse Royale with his bagpipes.  One by one he was joined by other members of the small consort who all played individual pieces on Crwth (Oliver Brookes), Citole (James Tyler) Harpsichord (Christopher Hogwood) and finished off with James Bowman singing t...

One member on this forum claimed that just before Ivor Stravinsky died in 1971 he had intended to write a piece for the Early Music Consort. How true this is I do not know. Perhaps, someone will know apart from my original contact....        Beachcomber          Re: The Stravinksy Connection..........? « Reply #1 on: February 01, 2010, 07:34:47 PM » I can remember reading something about this at the time.  Whether the fact that Munrow met Stravinsky and was sitting beside him at a concert of one of his works would need to be confirmed but I can remember something along those lines.  What I can recall was that Munrow was astonished to see Stravinsky following the work reading the score and, instead of following the melody he was following in an inner part, which to Stravinsky was more logical. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky ...