The Early Music Legend

Munrow briefly interviewed Kenneth Clarke  on Pied Piper. The former also along with Early Music Consort of London did some work for a documentary entitled Carved in Ivory.  Kenneth Clarke wrote, and narrated it. Ofcourse, recordings of the Early Music Consort have been used on a number of programmes (eg. if I recall correctly the Battaille at the end of the BBC  Its Royal Knock Out programme, and circa 1993 there was another BBC programme in which some  pieces from the Medieval Sound dealing the Grimms Faiytales were seemingly used) Carved in Ivory Series  Part  Date  1975 Director  Michael Gill Production Company  Synopsis  Examples of the work of British ivory carvers in the 7th to 12th centuries; filmed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Huly 1974, and at Kilpeck Church, Herefordshire.. Minutes  24 min Choreographer  Full synopsis  ACE051.2 10:00:00 10:12:10 Credits. Carved ivory comb, Viking dragon hea...

John Joubert was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1927. After studying composition with W. H. Bell in Cape Town, he came to England in 1946 on a Performing Right Society Scholarship, and studied under Howard Ferguson at the Royal Academy of Music. He entered academic life as a university lecturer, and taught at both Hull and Birmingham Universities, becoming Reader in Music at Birmingham in 1969. Since his retirement from teaching in 1986 he has devoted his time exclusively to composition. His most recent large scale work is a Requiem, to be performed at the 2010 Three Choirs Festival.  The composer writes: This song-cycle was commissioned by the Royal Musical Association as part of its centenary celebrations in 1974. It was designed and written for David Munrow’s Early Music Consort of London, and first performed at Stationers’ Hall in the City of London in the November of that year. The artists taking part were James Bowman (countertenor), David Munrow (recorder), Ol...

Song of the Turtle Dove Vocal Chamber Alto Recorder, Counter-Tenor, Cello (9 mins) About Written to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of David Munrow, founder of Early Music Performances. Performances John Turner (Alto Recorder), Nicholas Clapton (Counter-Tenor), and Jonathan Price (Violoncello). Kendal Festival, Ambleside, Cumbria, August 19, 2006. John Turner (Alto Recorder), Nicholas Clapton (Counter-Tenor), and Jonathan Price (Violoncello). Cambridge Festival, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, October 27, 2006. John Turner (Alto Recorder), Nicholas Clapton (Counter-Tenor), and Jonathan Price (Violoncello). Greenwich Early Music Festival Opening Concert, St. Alfege Church, Greenwich, November 10, 2006. 13th Century Dances Orchestra (25 mins) Setting Settings of all the melodies made popular by David Munrow in the late 1960s, including Lamento di Tristano, and various Ductias and Estampies. With Brass Fanfares and Woodwind Plainsongs. Perform...

         The following is from Wikipedia. It is concerned with the ITV series of Music in the Round in which Munrow in April 1971 and his Early Music Consort were televised in a programme entitled A Consort of Crumhorns. David Coulter a television producer informed me that David Munrow appeared in the Aquarius programme. He described him simply as being "very nice."  Music In The Round Between April 1971 and November 1972, London Weekend Television recorded "Music In The Round" at the Cockpit. Presented by Humphrey Burton, the show included performances and interviews with leading musicians across a broad range of genres. Amongst talent showcased in the 22 episodes were The National Youth Jazz Orchestra (having already made the Cockpit their home), who were featured on 7 May 1972 and Marc Bolan on 23 April 1972. The Cockpit referred to here was in Marylebone Theatre, London.

Peter Dickinson Publisher: Novello & Co A Memory of David Munrow (1977) Work Notes Wordless vocal lines Publisher Novello & Co Ltd Category Solo Voice(s) and up to 6 players Year Composed 1977 Duration 5 Minutes Soloist 2 Countertenors Programme Note Peter Dickinson A Memory of David Munrow (1977) Peter Dickinson wrote two works specially for David Munrow to perform and worked closely with him. Translations, for recorder, viola da gamba and harpsichord, dates from 1971, and Recorder Music, a virtuoso solo piece, from 1973. Munrow gave many performances of both pieces, and Recorder Music was included in The Art of the Recorder (EMI Records). A Memory of David Munrow was written for a BBC concert in Manchester at which Munrow was due to play, but he died tragically several months earlier. Thus the music is not a celebration of what he stood for, which might be appropriate now, but an elegy under the impact of shock. The se...

History     The Hinckley Music Club was established in 1963 by a leading private piano teacher in the town, Miss Marjorie King. For the first four years the Club?s activities comprised weekly meetings in an upstairs room at the Plough Inn in Leicester Road for illustrated talks on a musical theme, occasionally interspersed with live performances by local musicians. It was in this context that two young musicians, David Munrow and Christopher Hogwood, approached Marjorie King in 1965 to ask if they might be engaged for a performance of their repertoire of ?old? music. A fee of ten guineas was agreed, and an ?Elizabethan Evening? of Tudor music was presented in the Old Cottages, Lower Bond Street (now the Hinckley Museum). This was the start of the memorable association between these artists and the Club. The occasion led to several return visits by David Munrow with his Early Music Consort, and in 1969 David became the Club?s first President.     In 1967 Arts Council ...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- commissioned by David Munrow, Oliver Brookes & Christopher Hogwood Publisher Novello & Co Ltd Category Works for 2-6 Players Year Composed 1971 Duration 15 Minutes Orchestration rec.vadg.hpd Availability Hire  Explain this... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Note This work, in a single movement, was commissioned by David Munrow, Oliver Brookes and Christopher Hogwood for first performance at a concert at the Purcell Room on 20th February 1971. Its starting point was a series of chords playable on the treble recorder with an extra one played on a stopped descant. The expressive range of the instrument is thus extended and modern techniques of sul pont, col legno and others are applied to the gamba. I collaborated with the players in investigating these possibilities and found this most rewarding. Like Transformations, an orchestral work h...