Friday Sept. 27th, 1974 | Friday Jan. 24th, 1975 |
Russian Fantasy | Salutation (See Note 4) |
Arthur Pearson | Arthur Mulligan |
Friday Oct. 11th, 1974 | Friday Feb. 7th, 1975 |
V.W. - 1813 (See Note 1) | Haydn and Mozart |
Joyce Knapton | Derek Haslam |
Friday Oct. 25th, 1974 | Friday Feb. 21st, 1975 |
Records presented by | Under the Influence |
Ronald Kay (Clitheroe G.S.) | Geoff George |
Friday Nov. 1st, 1974 | Friday Mar. 7th, 1975 |
Miscellany (See Note 2) | Non Troppo |
Herbert Haslam | John Singleton |
Friday Nov. 15th, 1974 | Friday Mar. 21st, 1975 |
The Poet and the Hunter (See Note 3) | Musicians' Union |
Roderick Paton (Nelson & Colne College) | Eric Dawes |
Friday Dec. 6th, 1974 | Friday Apr. 11th, 1975 |
Waits and Measures | G. & S. - A Portrait in Words and Music |
Bill Broughton | Mr. R. W. Hall (Holcombe Brook G.S.) |
Friday Dec. 20th, 1974 | Friday Apr. 25th, 1975 |
Come Fly with Me | Somebody's Favourite A members' choice programme |
Alan Bracewell | presented by Stanley Burns |
Friday Jan. 10th, 1974 | Friday May. 9th, 1975 |
It Gives me Great Pleasure | An Evening at Leach House |
Geoffrey Lovett | by invitation of Tom & Marion Pilling |
Friday May 16th, 1975 | Annual General Meeting |
NOTES:
(1) The programme comprised music by Verdi and Wagner, both of whom were born in 1813 - hence the title. All I can remember is that the programme ended with the Immolation scene from Götterdämmerung
(2) I should really remember the items in this programme, since it was the only one ever given by my father, but it was a long time ago. I do remember the Berlioz, but nothing else.
(3) The theme of the programme was the association of the natural (valveless) horn with hunting and the occurrence of themes based on the tonic triad which suggest the horn, even when scored for other instruments. (Rod was, himself, a horn-player.) The first theme of the "Eroica" was quoted as an example of the latter, and several songs from the Schubert cycle (probably more than the two given above) explored these two ideas. There was much more music in the programme but it's now gone beyond recall, unfortunately.
(4) Sadly, this was the last programme given by founder-member Arthur Mulligan, who died in June 1975. One item in this programme was "The Lark Ascending" by Vaughan Williams.