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| Scott F.... |
 Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:42 am |
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Found this posted at www.thehighwaystar.com
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More than 40 years after Deep Purple first started touring and making
records, their multifacetted musical heritage not only lives on, it is
continually evolving through projects featuring other musicians, and
some of them are very young.
In 2009 audiences across the world are still experiencing Deep Purple.
New fans come to the flock all the time. Often they are offspring of
more experienced Deep Purple fans, who have now grown old enough to
understand and enjoy Deep Purple onstage.
But 40 years in the business also means some of Deep Purple’s older
fans have become ambitious musicians themselves wishing to keep the
Purple flame alive. Throughout Europe, Deep Purple tribute bands are
creating specially themed events where they are joined by one of the
original Deep Purple members.
Ian Paice was one of the first to partake in these evenings of
‘something different’ from the Purple Family. He has appeared at
numerous evenings of first a drum clinic, then a Deep Purple tribute
show with local musicians. Nick Simper has been doing entire Mark 1
themed concerts in Austria, Glenn Hughes has done Mark 3&4 shows in
Scandinavia, and Ian Gillan has taken up singing with orchestras.
Now appears another dimension. Playing the music of your childhood
hero with your childhood hero is one thing. It’s another experience to
be a very young musician, struggling to master your instrument and get
to do it with the help and backing of someone of Deep Purple’s
calibre. Nevertheless, this is what is going on in Scotland at the
moment.
Music students from music schools and colleges in Edinburgh are
gathered together in a special project aiming to perform Jon Lord’s
Concerto for Group and Orchestra with Jon Lord in their city on
October 5. An entire philharmonic orchestra of 100 young people, these
are not Deep Purple fans with massive record collections. Rather, they
are keen and energetic kids revelling in the opportunity to learn from
one of the masters.
- I couldn’t believe my eyes when Jon Lord walked into the college,
says guitarist Grant Kilpatrick when Jon Lord first came to Edinburgh
in February to rehearse the rock band.
- It is a great privilege to perform with him especially in this
piece. We all know Smoke on The Water but this is something else!
So while the current formation of Deep Purple is preparing to sow more
musicals seeds on a November-December trek across the UK and the
European continent, Jon Lord is gearing up a gang of Scottish kids to
do the Concerto on a very special evening in Edinburgh.
Thus, the music of the Deep Purple family lives on and continues to
evolve through projects featuring other musicians. Give yourself a
treat, go see a different kind of show.
Jon Lord with the Stevenson College Orchestra at Edinburgh’s Usher
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| David Meadows... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 5:40 am |
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Quote: Jon Lord with the Stevenson College Orchestra at Edinburgh’s Usher
Hall on October 5.
I'll be there. I might even write a review ;-)
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David Meadows
http://www.heroes.force9.co.uk |
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| Peter... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:28 am |
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I'll look forward to your review Dave, they're always enjoyable.
Pete
"David Meadows" <david at (no spam) no.spam.here.co.uk> wrote in message
news:boWdncMKsa2BYyDXnZ2dnUVZ8uydnZ2d at (no spam) brightview.co.uk...
Quote: Jon Lord with the Stevenson College Orchestra at Edinburgh's Usher
Hall on October 5.
I'll be there. I might even write a review ;-)
--
David Meadows
http://www.heroes.force9.co.uk
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| Harrie Hendriksen... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:57 am |
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Hear hear !!!
Harrie
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Quote: I'll look forward to your review Dave, they're always enjoyable.
Pete
"David Meadows" <david at (no spam) no.spam.here.co.uk> wrote in message
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Jon Lord with the Stevenson College Orchestra at Edinburgh's Usher
Hall on October 5.
I'll be there. I might even write a review ;-)
--
David Meadows
http://www.heroes.force9.co.uk
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