tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post7721270213233703587..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: Autumn interlude - IIDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-82590533560361525952007-12-12T14:55:00.000+00:002007-12-12T14:55:00.000+00:00By the way, I learn to my mortification he was nev...By the way, I learn to my mortification he was never 'Sir John'. I discovered this after I'd written my Building a Library script, when the producer, Kevin Bee, amusingly greeted me with the news that I and the Queen were the only two people in the country capable of granting knighthoods.<BR/><BR/>Well, if he wasn't a knight, he jolly well should have been.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-15829378307462045882007-11-20T11:36:00.000+00:002007-11-20T11:36:00.000+00:00Hello Pierre,Enjoyed looking across at your blog. ...Hello Pierre,<BR/><BR/>Enjoyed looking across at your blog. You should write more often.<BR/><BR/>Not sure if this is the right place to put my reply, but here it is: you can read the interview with Sir John in the forthcoming 'Tales of Beatrix Potter' programme. He was very cagy about his sources, being afraid of possible copyright infringement (made me turn the tape off as he told me this). But he did say that Pigling Bland's variation was derived from Minkus's ballet 'The Goldfish' and that the Pas de deux is NOT 'Love is like a violin' but a song from an operetta which was used for 'LILAV' called 'take a letter to my sweetheart'. 'Mrs Tiggywinkle's Laundry' is based on a piano study (again, he wouldn't cite the composer)<BR/><BR/>Beyond that, he wouldn't reveal anything, and I haven't traced any of the other sources. Most of his ballets' source materials are well identified in the Royal Ballet archives, but not this one.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-49661257066966422782007-11-17T12:15:00.000+00:002007-11-17T12:15:00.000+00:00Delighted you've enjoyed Lanchberry's Tales of Bea...Delighted you've enjoyed Lanchberry's Tales of Beatrix Potter so much. Any info as to which pieces he reworked for the score? I think someone told me he'd used Victorian domestic and salon pieces, but I've never discovered which if any.Pierrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11544413633566518649noreply@blogger.com