Sir Malcolm Arnold

General Melchett · Sir Malcolm Arnold

Sad to hear this morning the death of the celebrated English composer Sir Malcolm Arnold, arguably the greatest of his generation. Many fine film scores and much "serious music" too.

I feel the four Scottish Dances may be making an appearance this term - drunken Bassoonists stand-by!

eastneyslapper

Sad news indeed. Henry Kelly has already paid tribute with 1st Movt of English Dances this morning on Classic FM. The first English composer to win an Oscar, too.... RIP Sir Malcolm

Sharpy

Padstow Lifeboat for MFM!!

RIP Sir Malclom.

FFoglamp

Deeply saddened to hear this news.

In fact I'm rather sad by the amount of good people ending up on this thread.

Very fond of Sir Malcolm's music, especially the aforementioned Scottish Dances.

Perhaps The Padstow Lifeboat will make a reappearance this year !

General Melchett

Sharpy - Genius!

Not just MFM though, the Carnegie could do with some quality scharsting from the Horn team in Padstow Lifeboat. Hoofing!

A

I've just ordered Padstow Lifeboat for my Uni band. That'll definitely be in our first concert. Along with, I hope, with a Richard Waterer piece.

RAB

Sir Malcolm was, in my eyes, a musical genius, who crossed borders of all types of formation from Brass band to Orchestra to solo Guitar. One piece I particularly remember was The Tam O' Shanter Overture, which was often used as a competition test piece in my younger days. Very testing it was as well.

RIP Sir..

bootybandy

Before I joined the RMB I used to play cornet. It was on a National Schools Brass Band event in Truro that I first played Padstow Lifeboat and that tune has remained with me for all these years. A sad loss to British Music.

Mr Bass Trombone

I can remember Malcolm Arnold as he was then in the early 60s coming to a Friday night concert to conduct his Grand Grand Overture this was written for full Orchestra and a Vacum Cleaner, a Floor Polisher(the electric type) and a Rifle. I cant remember all the soloists but I know that Charlie Bowden was on Solo Rifle.
He wrote some exellent music that we all at some period of our time in the RMB must have played. RIP Sir Malcolm.