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Further Scrapings - Synopsis This book is a sequel to the author's previous volume "Scraping a Living", the memories of a typical British violinist in the latter part of the 20th century, and here he delves more deeply into earliest childhood memories. The 'dark, satanic mills' were then still belching forth plumes of black smoke, painting every building in the industrial West Riding a forbidding black, but it was relatively easy to escape into the unspoilt beauties of the Yorkshire Dales. Family life is remembered, from the special standpoint of a household where both parents were working as professional music teachers, and music was the centre of their existence. They were his sole music teachers until he won a scholarship to the RAM London aged sixteen. However, to grow up in the twenties and thirties meant a gradually increasing awareness of threatening times ahead - a grim counterpoint to an otherwise happy existence. This led to the outbreak of war, and the student days in London began exactly when the wartime Blitz started. Three years of study, was followed by service in the Royal Marines Staff Band, under Colonel Kenneth Ricketts, alias K.J.Alford, composer of "Colonel Bogey", the most successful march tune of all time! After the war came membership of the Boyd Neel String Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra, playing under the greatest conductors of the century. From 1955 to 1966 he was leader of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and later held the post of Concertmaster of the BBC Training Orchestra. There are appendices and other chapters; giving Mountain's views on orchestral leadership, conducting, teaching and general music education which should interest musicians and lay readers alike.
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Further Scrapings - Author Author of "Scraping a Living" - 978-1-4259-8390-1 (Softcover ISBN) Peter Mountain was born on 3rd October 1923 in Shipley, West Yorkshire into a musical family. Violin quickly became his main interest, and in his sixteenth year he gained a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Here he was accepted into the class of Rowsby Woof, the best-known violin professor of his day. He also played as a concerto soloist with Sir Henry Wood. During the War, he served in the band of the Royal Marines, landing at the Mulberry Harbour in France, and being among the first British troops to enter Paris. Later, after the defeat of Japan, he led an orchestra of serving musicians sent to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to escort Louis Mountbatten, Commander South-East Asia back to his headquarters in Singapore, where they made a tour over the whole command. In Bangkok he played the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto at a concert attended by the King of Siam. After the war he studied further with the famous Russian teacher Sascha Lasserson. He was a member of the Boyd Neel String Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra. For eleven years he was leader of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, under Sir John Pritchard and Sir Charles Groves. He was Concertmaster of the BBC Training Orchestra and also Head of Strings at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He played as soloist with many British orchestras and appeared often in chamber music, most notably in a life-long duo partnership with his wife, pianist Angela Dale. He was awarded Fellowships of the RAM in London and the RSAMD in Glasgow. In 1992 the University of Bradford awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Literature in recognition of his services to music education.
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This was a great read and it was wonderful to learn more about those now legendary musicians who built post-2nd-war British musical life into the world-class culture it is now.
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