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Re: Whistling in the Wind

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Subject: Re: Whistling in the Wind
From: "Alec Gallagher" <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 19:21:39 +0100
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From: David Lancaster <d.lancaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: 20 July 1998 22:38
Subject: Whistling in the Wind

>The reviewer for the Telegraph (which I don't normally read, you
>understand...

Don't apologise!!  Whatever one thinks of the Telegraph's political colour,
I'm convinced that there is a secret brass band aficionado down in
Docklands.  By complete coincidence this very day there is a splendid
feature on Grimethorpe (see earlier posting), and this follows on from that
bass trom interview I mentioned on the list two or three months ago.  The
only thing they slipped up on was the lack of mention of brass in George
Lloyd's obit - but how many other rags (including the other broadsheets)
gave Lloyd a half page farewell, I wonder?)

>
>"Whistle Down the Wind is terrible.  It is not simply that the music
>is a stale mishmash with its theme tune a weedy whisper.  It is not
>merely that the lyrics are entirely pedestrian.  It is not only that
>it unleashes onto the stage as a main part of the action a horde of
>ingratiating children.  Worst of all is the self-regard,
>masquerading as piety, the sugariness pretending to be compassion.
>The centre of this show is rotten and it is smug".
>
>One for the summer programme, perhaps, or that entertainments contest
>in the autumn...

Maybe not, but as an alternative,  Peter Graham's 'Aspects of Lloyd Webber'
is really rather good, I think.

Alec

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