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From: Gordon Thornett [mailto:gordon.thornett@btinternet.com]
Sent: 13 January 2003 23:55
Subject: RE: [Old Askeans] Amahl
Sorry. I dodn't mean 'the colour of snow', did I?
 
You got it!  I had half remembered Roger Jupp - more of an actor than a singer, I believe.  He must have played Kaspar (the hard of hearing one).  Nonetheless he would have had to sing pretty well to sustain this (the top) part of the trio.  Philip John would have had that lovely solo 'Have you seen a child, the colour of wheat, the colour of snow?'  Anyone know wehat has become of our 3 Magi in later life?       GT

Just been talking Alan Payne he reckons the kings were the John Twin,
Philip, Roger Jupp and Philip Davis - .... Could that be right?


From: "Gordon Thornett" >Subject: RE: [Old Askeans] Amahl
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 00:37:43 -0000


OK, GF,  number one is Christopher John (or could be Phillip John,
except that he'd have been playing the cello) .  The one behind,
carrying the box, if I'm not mistaken is one Phillip Davies, a nice
chap, despite being in the school rugby team (!) - not to be confused
with Philip Davis who played French horn.  The one with the beard has me
foxed.  Looks a bit like Mark Millan, but I don't remember him treading
the boards.  Has anyone got an old programme they could scan on to an
email to settle the matter?    Thanks, anyway, Geoff.


- In oldaskeans@yahoogroups.com, "Gordon Thornett" > Now here's a
little memory test for anyone who was around for our 70s
 production of Amahl.  Does anyone remember who played the three
kings?
 I have a hunch that one of the (twin) brothers John was involved.
But
 who else?

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--- In oldaskeans@yahoogroups.com, "Gordon Thornett"
<gordon.thornett@b...> wrote:
 John Skinner?  Would he be the current DOM at the academy at the
top of the hill?  
 
He would. Or, more accurately, DOM at the whole college - the lower
school being at the bottom of the hill.

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Hello Paul
Sorry! I did forget you and Stuart. He's still around in SE London, had a
small record company called Christian Records last I heard.
Andrew Shipp was the trumpeter and (???) Morgan on bass wasn't it ??
Let us know when you come over and we'll meet for a pint - OK.
Regards Mel

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From: Stephen Hinton
To: oldaskeans@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Old Askeans] Re: orchestra
 
Jonathan Fry played flute (a wooden one, as I recall).  It was his younger brother Peter who was and still is the percussionist.  Rupert Bawden (violinist and violist), a couple of years younger than Peter, has also worked as a professional musician, including for the Academy of Ancient Music.

--Stephen Hinton (66-73)

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Richard Woodfield (viola) - was he an Askean?

Yes, Richard was.  So was his older brother, Ian Woodfield, who played cello and ended up teaching musicology in the university system.  A google search produced the following information about his current whereabouts, with photo.  As you can see, his cello has been discarded in favor of a viol, an instrument on which he has published a well-received book which has been translated into Italian (The Early History of the Viol, Cambridge University Press).
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http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/school/staff/ian.htm

--Stephen Hinton (66-73)
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David Twizell <david.twizell@btopenworld.com> wrote:

Not having reached these dizzy heights I do not have a programme but surely at around this time
and before most of those listed had left
there would also have been:

Simon Law (violin)
Chris Morgan (double bass)
Andrew Harte (another oboeist)

Peter Fry was an excellent horn player, as well as percussionist meaning
that briefly we had Ken Boon, Philip Davis, and Peter.
 No wonder I never progresed beyond 4th horn.

Richard Garrad was surely the thinnest person ever to play the tuba - which
made his rendition of "Tubby the Tuba" all the funnier. After a good meal
and wringing wet I would estimate his 6' 5" weighed in at about 9 stone.

Steve Portnoi was as quiet as Richard was thin. He must have been one of the
finest all-rounders ever at Askes (and certainly in my time) - though it went largely unnoticed.

David Twizell
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From: <scutler@cwcom.net>
To: <oldaskeans@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 12:55 PM
Subject: [Old Askeans] Re: orchestra

Yes, it's "young" Peter Fry who is the percussionist.
I have dug out an LSSO programme of 8.3.69 (Royal Festival Hall,
leader Steve Levine, with John Lill, piano) - Berlioz Benvenuto
Cellini, Rachmaninov 2nd PC, Messiaen Les Offrandes oubliées and
Elgar In the South. Ah, memories! I seem to remember that Adam Faith
came on stage to make a charity appeal.

Some of these names seem very familiar but I am not now sure whether
they were Askeans or not. Any ideas?

Those of us playing in that one were:
1st vlns: Chris Cole
2nd vlns: Yours truly
Violas: Geoff Evans
(also an Alleyn's man who almost qualifies as an honorary Askean,
David Hilliard)
Cello's: Mel
Oboes: Paul Curtis. Also Stephen Gates. Was he one of us?
Trumpets: Martin Bunce (one of us??)
Trombones: Ian Whittaker
Tuba: Richard Garrad
Timps: Another Alleynian, who we had a lot to do with, Stephen
Henderson
Percussion: Peter Fry

Most notable as later professional musicians that I recognise in that
band were the leader of the 2nds, Paul Silverthorne, and the famous
string quartet leader I sat next to, Irvine Arditti. Also Paul Beer,
trombone, who I believe was with the ECO for a while.

Another programme of 12.1.70 includes, as well as some of the above,
Stephen Hinton (viola)
Stephen Portnoi (flute) (the section led, can you believe it, by
Malcolm Bennett)
Robert Kechley (oboe) (one of a pair of American brothers, given a
really hard time while they were at Aske's)
Neil Whiffen (bassoon)
Ken Boon (horn)
Philip Davis (horn)
Richard Woodfield (viola) - was he an Askean?

By this time, the orchestra was led by Danny Daggers, and Irvine
Arditti not surprisingly had moved up to the Firsts, which also
included Nigel North, now better known for his lute playing.


All in all, pretty good going.


Steve Cutler

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