The Early Music Legend

https://www.youtube.com/Searle8 The following may of interest! http://collections.vam.ac.uk/name/david-munrow/AUTH342361/     One of a series of seven letters, handwritten by David Munrow to his beloved teddy bears and toys while he was on holiday in Cornwall as a young boy in the 1950s. In these affectionate and newsy letters to bears ‘Humph, Ginge and Eddy,’ David paints an exciting picture of his holiday activities for the soft toys left behind in his Birmingham bedroom: ‘We have caught eight fish…we eat them for breakfast’; ‘I really ought to have written before but we have been so busy painting the boat’; ‘The other day I tried to reach a stick in the water and Plosh! In I went with all my clothes on’; ‘I hope you arn’t [sic] too lonely at home but we've only got another week down here’. David Munrow’s intelligence, imagination and wit shine through. He adds a post script to many of the letters from a toy named ‘Poo’, which he writes in a different hand ...

The following is a link to the papers of Munrow's father who was a PE teacher who wanted to spread the word of the need for physical, and  mental health via exercise. Also, one of the things that his son David loved doing was rock climbing! However, as a father he naturally feared for his safety but his offspring was absolutely fearless...! https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/5ea5e605-4201-3670-885f-fdfea47fec99 ........The Old Gym is interesting not just for its architecture. Its construction in 1939-41 followed the Physical Training Act of 1937, promoted by the prime minister Neville Chamberlain as part of a drive to improve public health by integrating physical education into daily life. It was built under the supervision of Albert Davis Munrow, who was appointed Director of Physical Education by the university in 1939 and remained in post until he retired in 1970. This full time position was established to make physical education and ...

  The short but brilliant life of David Munrow blazed a trail for his passion, says Ivan Hewett. Maestro: in all, Munrow had command of 43 musical instruments   Photo: G MacDomnic/Lebrecht Music & Arts/       By Ivan Hewett 6:05PM BST 23 May 2012/Telegraph   The following as can be seen is an old article as the date indicates/ Blogger Ref  https://www.youtube.com/Searle8   For most of history, the territory of what people called music didn’t extend very far. It consisted, by and large, of the sounds and styles they grew up with. Anything else was a barbaric noise. Now, the territory seems endless. It stretches outwards to “ethnic” non-Western instruments and beyond them to electronic sound. And part of the reason we can stroll round this infinity with such insouciance is that a handful of explorers got there first. They mapped the territory, captured the sounds, and...

Blogger Ref   https://www.youtube.com/Searle8 The following is a pleasant, and wonderful presentation of some of the recorder work of David Munrow.... http://wwno.org/post/continuum-art-recorder-1

Wednesday, 11 February 2015 Genre:  Education / Music/Source Curious British Telly Channel:  BBC2 Transmission:  17/05/1976 - 14/06/1976 Believe it or not, but there was actually a time when Curious British Telly's life  wasn't  consumed entirely by archive television. It was merely a passion which would briefly manifest itself when we watched old episodes of  Dr Who  and tried to remember that children's tv show about the artistic dog. You see, our obsession before this glorious folly was... MUSIC! We'd attend gigs regularly, bought NME every single week for 9 years and even started a few fan sites on Geocities. The passion for us, fuelled by our teenage desire to be hip and cool, gradually faded, but for the people involved in  Ancestral Voices  music was a way of life. Melodies from the Past With an amazing title that sounds like the greatest Led Zeppelin album never recorded,  Ancestral Voices  was the BBC's attemp...

A Treasury of Early Music  http://www.youtube.com/Searle8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6xaQRQpVic&t=18s Thanks to Stefano Dal Cortivo  for the above link The following is in Italian as an English version is unavailable at present Published on 12 Feb 2017 Musica alle corti d’Inghilterra dai Plantageneti agli Stuart. Il programma, come dice il titolo, ha una sua precisa qualificazione. Si tratta di musiche fra il XII e il XVII secolo, eseguite in Inghilterra alle Corti di Riccardo I, Enrico V, Enrico VIII, Elisabetta I, Giacomo I e Carlo I. Ricorrono così, accanto ai nomi degli strumenti antichi - quali il liuto, la viola da gamba, la tromba medievale, il cromorno, la ribeca, la citola, la dulciana, il cembalo, ecc. - i nomi delle celebri dinastie inglesi quali Tudor, Stuart, Plantageneti e Lancaster. E tra gli autori spiccano proprio alcuni Sovrani che scrissero musiche eseguite poi nelle feste a Corte. Infatti di Carlo I Stuart avremo l'aria «Guarda...

Semibrevity is an important blog on the early pioneers of Early Music. See http://www.semibrevity.com/2016/04/nikolaus-harnoncourt-and-gustav-leonhardt-a-musical-friendship-of-more-than-60-years/ Guest Blogger: Peter Dickinson is a composer, writer and pianist and an Emeritus Professor of two universities – Keele and London. See here for more details. ‘My wife and I first met David and Gill Munrow in Cambridge in about 1965. It was summer and we were all in the garden at 54 Bateman Street, the home of Mary Potts, whose late husband was L. J. Potts, the literary critic and English don at Queens’ College. Mary Potts had a very special role in the early music revival which has not been acknowledged [other than in this Semibrevity blog post ]. A mere mention of her more distinguished pupils, who included Christopher Hogwood , Colin Tilney and Peter Williams, is enough to indicate that she ought to be better known now. She knew harpsichordists of international reputation such as ...