The News Review:
- Music Review: Mr. B and Bob Seeley “Back to Back”
- Chamber Music Series gets warm welcome back
- White city blues: farewell to a national treasure
Music Review: Mr. B and Bob Seeley “Back to Back”
The Trades – Oct 20, 2007
B moves things along in a more compact manner but with just as much gusto. The song choices are an excellent selection of great genre music. William Christopher Handy’s composition “St. Louis Blues” is a fundamental part of jazz musicians’ repertoire and inspiration for the “Foxtrot” dance step. “After Hours” is an old piano blues by Avery Parrish and “Cow Cow Blues” by Cow Cow Davenport was one of the earliest recorded examples of boogie-woogie. “The Honeydripper” (based around the traditional plantation song “Shortnin’ Bread”) was a huge hit for Joe Liggins and an important precursor to the development of rock and roll.
Chamber Music Series gets warm welcome back
Jakarta Post – Oct 20, 2007
I remember Leonard saying to me “”After this season is over normally I have the baby blues and don’t want to hear anything about the Chamber Music Series. But after a while I’ll come back and start organizing the next season”". Well it had been almost six months since then and I still had not heard anything from him. I was starting to worry: Had Leonard recovered from his baby blues? r had he decided to call it quits? Leonard’s departure from Indonesian music society would be a tremendous loss. His Chamber Music Series has been an oasis for music lovers on a budget as well as youngsters who are just starting to study music.
White city blues: farewell to a national treasure
The Independent – Independent – Oct 20, 2007
TV Centre opened on 29 June 1960 was the first purpose-built centre for television production. In its first quarter century of making television programmes the BBC adapted buildings that had been designed for other purposes including two small studios at Alexandra Palace in north London and four converted film studios bought from Rank at Lime Grove. In 1953 the Shepherd’s Bush Empire just down the road from TV Centre a converted music hall became Television Theatre and in 1956 two more studios were converted at the Riverside in Hammersmith. But ever since the end of the Second World War the Corporation had wanted to find a permanent home for its television shows. In 1949 it purchased a 13-acre site at White City so called because it was the home to the 1908 Franco-British exhibition which consisted of ornate white pavilions. White City was also home to the 1908 lympic Games. All that remains of the grand spectacle now is a small square of tiles on the ground outside TC1 the biggest studio at TV Centre.