[78-L] Canadian music

[Dave Burnham]

You can hardly judge the quality of musical life in Canada from the perspective of the console of a theatre organ. 

db

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> On Feb 15, 2014, at 1:14 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> Gerald Moore lived here briefly, toured with the Hambourgs (not all of whom 
> settled in Canada) but was born in England and sent back there once his parents 
> realized the quality of musical life in Canada.
> 
> dl
> 
>> On 2/15/2014 1:11 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>> No, Faure's Requiem. I didn't mention the filler sides (Mozart, Haydn/Hofstetter).
>> 
>> dl
>> 
>>> On 2/15/2014 1:08 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>>> Fauré???  I think you mean Haydn, (never saw those two mixed up before).
>>> 
>>> There were some Canadian classical performers who had left our shores for Europe and the US and made a career for themselves - Gerald Moore was one, I know Frederick Grinke spent time in Winnepeg but don't know if he was a Canadian.  Rossario Bourdon and Hans Kindler moved south.  I'm sure there are more.  Deanna Durbin recorded classical repertoire but not really as a classical artist.  Bobby Breen also did most of his work in England, I think.
>>> 
>>> db
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Saturday, February 15, 2014 12:33:05 PM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>   wrote:
>>> 
>>> Claude Champagne's Gaspe Symphony was rumoured (note I used the Canuckistanian
>>>> spelling) to have been recorded on 78 but I've never seen it. Aside from Victor
>>>> c. 1942, the CBC was the only institution to record any Canadian Classical
>>>> material in the 40s and get it out there, mostly to embassies and other
>>>> broadcasters (and the Victors were of Holst, Elgar, Byrd and Faure). London had
>>>> actually begun recording dance bands, country music and French performers
>>>> (including Charles Aznavour) in Toronto and Montreal by 1950 but with pretty
>>>> mediocre sound quality. And obviously this one (which I really have seen a
>>>> number of times) didn't sell well enough to encourage any follow-up.
>>>> 
>>>> dl
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2/15/2014 12:26 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>>>>> Ah yes, I remember them well!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Okay, everyone, hands up anybody who has ever seen this record!  Iturbi's "Polonaise in A flat" turns up frequently, as does Jan Peerce's "Bluebird of Happiness" and Toscanini's almost anything, but I've been going through records all my life, as dl well knows and I've never seen it before.  For someone who goes through records as often as you do, (Dave), I'll bet the best you can say is that it turns up "occasionally".
>>>>> 
>>>>> Of course there are probably lots of examples of Canadian Popular songs recorded by Canadian ex-pats in the USA - Guy Lombardo, Percy Faith, etc., but I'm talking about Canadian "Classical" music.  About the only other country I can think of in the Western World whose music has such a hard time penetrating out through its borders is Holland.  I'm sure Holland has produced some fine music and it has its share of artists who are well known all over the world; it has one of the world's greatest orchestras and finest concert halls, but I would certainly be hard pressed to hum any tune written there.  I'm familiar with the name Sweelinck, but don't know any of his music.  For a while I thought Herold, (who wrote the Zampa Oveture), was from Holland but then I found that no, there was another composer who was a far less famous namesake.
>>>>> 
>>>>> db
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Saturday, February 15, 2014 8:41:18 AM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>    wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have exactly the same situation with the Crepitation Contest...I knew Syd
>>>>>> Brown in the 60s but didn't know until later that he'd made that recording (of
>>>>>> another kind of Canadian music).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That Godden turns up frequently. I wonder if it was sold anywhere else but
>>>>>> Canada? I have an acetate of him playing his own music, with introductions.
>>>>>> Unlabelled, found it in a thrift shop. You'd have also wanted to ask him about
>>>>>> the Board Of Education recordings he made with Scott Malcolm in the 40s. We all
>>>>>> marched around the gym to those.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> dl
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 2/15/2014 1:47 AM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>>>>>>> I just came across a record in very clean condition which claims to be the first recording of Canadian Music by a Canadian artist recorded outside of Canada.  It's an English London pressing recorded in England of Kenneth Peacock's "Bridal Suite" and Barbara Pentland's "Studies in Line" played by Reginald Godden around 1950.  I worked with Reg Godden in the late '70s and I would love to have discussed this record with him.  I wish these people wouldn't die so soon, (though if Godden were alive today he would be 109 years old).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> db
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