|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other authors named Thomas:
|
|
|
|
Author's popularity: -2
Vote:  
|
If you like or dislike this author in general or one or more of their quotes in particular, please give us your feedback by clicking on the icon to vote for, or the icon to vote against them.
|
|
Popularity: 4
Vote: | A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | I didn't know he'd been knighted. I knew he'd been doctored. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it! |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Most of them sound like they live on seaweed. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. |
|
Biography
|
Thomas Beecham (April 29, 1879 - March 8, 1961) was a
British conductor. He founded several British orchestras including the New Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Beecham is often taken to be the finest British conductor of the early to mid-twentieth century.
Beecham was a great champion of several composers, including
Delius, Ethel Smyth and Sibelius. He also often succeeded in presenting slight pieces, such as encores, in their best light, and this gave rise to the terminology "Beecham's lollipops".
Beecham was known as a great wit, and there are many anecdotes involving him. It is said that in one rehearsal he was unsatisfied with the performance of a female solo cellist, and so said to her "Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it!". Still more famous is the response Beecham is reported to have made when asked whether he had ever conducted any Stockhausen: 'No, but I believe I once trod in some!'.
Selected Discography
*Balakirev, Symphony 1
* Bizet, Symphony in C, EMI
* Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, French National Radio Orchestra, EMI
*Handel, Messiah (arranged Beecham)
*Mozart,
1.) Clarinet concerto - with Jack Brymer, EMI
2.) Requiem
*Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherezade
*Rossini, La Gazza Ladra - overture, RPO, Columbia 78
*Schubert, Symphony 3,5 and 6, EMI
*Sibelius, 7th Symphony
...(more on Wikipedia)
|
|
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Thomas Beecham".
|
|
|