Havergal Brian.

[kishnevi]

Dropping in for a moment, to ask at least one you of faithful Havergalians to provide an avatar of The Composer wearing a Santa cap or other Christmas related attire,  for the general good of GMG.  Either photoshopped or an actual historical image.

Context of this request can be found in the "Identify Your Avatar" thread.

[Brahmsian]

Dropping in for a moment, to ask at least one you of faithful Havergalians to provide an avatar of The Composer wearing a Santa cap or other Christmas related attire,  for the general good of GMG.  Either photoshopped or an actual historical image.

Context of this request can be found in the "Identify Your Avatar" thread.

Excellent! 

[Hattoff]

Havergal Christmas
Here's a link to a piccy. I can't post pictures directly to this board.

http://www.mediafire.com/?6hauizijjwwq5us#!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Well done, Steve! 

[John Whitmore]

Well done, Steve! 

If he came down my chimney I would phone the police immediately.

[John Whitmore]

A quick update. I've listened to the new Klassic Haus Aries stuff this morning:
1) Symph 2
2) Symph 3
3) Symphs 4 and 5
4) Symphs 9,12, and 23
Overall, much improved on previous incarnations. Less hiss, a bit more warmth and the channels in 9 corrected (they were previously reversed). Not digital state of the art, of course, but a very creditable stab at refurbishing some old recordings and getting the best out of them. Those of you who bought the Holmes VC/Symph 28 or Symphs 8/14 transfers will know what to expect. Actually, these new ones are somewhat better than that.

[Dundonnell]

Super

[John Whitmore]

Super

Super duper actually

[calyptorhynchus]

Bristol performance of Symphony 19 now streaming on the HBS website. Will listen when I get home.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Good news! Will listen, too.

[Brian]

Just wrapped the Brabbins 'Gothic' for my aunt for Christmas.

[Karl Henning]

Havergal for the holidays!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Quote from: Brian on Today at 14:42:37

Just wrapped the Brabbins 'Gothic' for my aunt for Christmas.



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Havergal for the holidays!

Ho-Ho-Hovergal assents.

[Lethevich]

Hi Sarge,
Since the demise of town and city shopping centres due to the rise of the out of town shopping malls, the high streets in the UK are full of empty shops/stores. These empty premises have been filled with "charity shops". Anyone in the UK can set up such a shop by obtaining charitable status from the taxman but they must prove that they are doing some sort of social service or have an educational purpose. To fund themselves many charities open shops selling second hand goods, where anyone can donate items for free and the shop assistants are often retired people who donate their services for free. Some more well known examples are Oxfam, the Red Cross and Barnardos (a charity for orphans).
A problem is that the executives of the charity are allowed to cream off expenses which a minority do, to the extent of removing 90% of the income for themselves and only 10% going to their cause. Charities are now big business here in the UK.
The Havergal Brian Society is an educational charity, albeit a very small specialised one with no shops in the high street at all but there would be nothing to stop them opening one if they wished. Can I suggest opening one in Dover? selfishly near me

An addendum to an ancient post (I'm slowly going through the backlog) - the British Heart Foundation is particularly bad at this, as they employ full-time both a manager and sub-manager, Oxfam from my experience just employ a manager, and sometimes spread them between several stores.

Re. the thread - I ought to get my hands on that new Dutton disc at some point.

Edit: noo! I missed the 27th being performed? That is one of my favourites ;_;

[John Whitmore]

Just wrapped the Brabbins 'Gothic' for my aunt for Christmas.

What has she done to offend you?

[calyptorhynchus]

Re the Bristol 19th

I think this is a very nice performance of one of the few HB symphonies that is largely fun, with little grimness or violence (along with symphonies 11 & 15).

With this performance we now have reasonable recordings of all the HB symphonies except 24 and 26 (and perhaps 28).

This performance seemed very intimate, almost chamber music in places, though with plenty of brass for the (few) loud bits. I loved the detail of the interactions of the harp and timpani at one point, and the violin and flute solos. The build-up to the climax of the lyric slow movement was was impressive, (this slow movement is one of HB's happiest). I like calm and unhurried performances of Brian's music, and this is one of them. It's encourgaing that (with a motivating conductor) a non-professional orchestra can put on such a good perforamnce of HB's music, which is not the easiest of music to play.

All in all I think the Bristol concert-goers got a treat, and thanks to the HBS for sharing it.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Nice review, calyptorhynchus. I concur wholeheartedly. John Pickard, of course, isn't anyone. A symphonist himself and someone who knows Brian's work very very well. He was also instrumental in getting Martyn Brabbins to conduct 'The Gothic'. I listened to the performance this afternoon. It's good we now have a second performance of this very attractive work.

[John Whitmore]

Nice review, calyptorhynchus. I concur wholeheartedly. John Pickard, of course, isn't anyone. A symphonist himself and someone who knows Brian's work very very well. He was also instrumental in getting Martyn Brabbins to conduct 'The Gothic'. I listened to the performance this afternoon. It's good we now have a second performance of this very attractive work.

Listened to it a couple of times in the car and once at home. Good sound. Shame about the ensemble at the opening but it soon settles down. A strange mixture of good ideas and old ground revisited. The usual clumsy string writing but well worth a listen. I liked it. Good performance overall I must say. There are a few passing intonation issues in the strings and the habit of playing dotted rhythms as triplets on occasion (he says, having not seen the score ). If this is the standard of some of our amateur university orchestras then I am greatly enthused and impressed.  Hats off to them. Our orchestra at Surrey University was chronic. I hope that Mr.Pickard does some more Brian. 21 maybe.

[John Whitmore]

Four new CDs featuring Aries LP restorations are now available from Klassic Haus. Here's the link:
http://www.klassichaus.us/Home.php
They are excellent

[Sergeant Rock]

Four new CDs featuring Aries LP restorations are now available from Klassic Haus.

Thanks for the info. Just placed an order for 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Sarge