1961: DUDLEY MOORE and PETER MAXWELL DAVIES: 2 Composers | Monitor | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive
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- Monitor profiles two outstanding - but very different - young composers: Dudley Moore and Peter Maxwell Davies, both 26. Dudley Moore writes jazz, pop music, jingles and advertisements and performs in jazz clubs, theatres and festivals. Peter Maxwell Davies writes "advanced, difficult" compositions that are critically lauded but frequently impenetrable to the casual listener, he subsidises his composing by working as a music teacher.
Originally broadcast 26 February, 1961.
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30 years ago, Dudley gave a series of intimate piano concerts in Toronto, Canada, during TIFF. I went to one, and sent him a fan letter. He phoned methe next day, and we chatted like old friends. Then, he invited me to brunch with him at the restaurant in the host hotel.
We spent a couple of hours, talking of things silly and serious, and he told me that he loved comefy, but if he ever lost his music, "it would be the end of everything".
A few years later, while playing the piano, he discovered he'd lost control over one of his baby fingers. It was the start of the Progressive Supranuclear Palsy that would indeed be "the end of everything", including his life.
Heartbreaking. And so utterly unjust.
Maxwell Davies is so compelling.
And so says one of us!
Dudley Moore was an absolute genius at everything he did. So versatile and fascinating...and such a nice man. How he suffered in his final years is heartbreaking
Why do you say he was an absolute genius I'm curious?
Absolutely marvelous! I’m grateful to the BBC for posting this.
but I'd like to see the whole thing !
Peter has the mannerisms of someone "on the spectrum". Very focused, highly, developed and less-able to respond to other's emotions; he's pure.
A fascinating piece this. Two talented young men in a hurry - Moore head down almost runs home to his flat and PMD " doesn't waste a minute" composing into the night ( and also I bet into the early hours of the morning) having worked a full day class teaching: and he certainly wasn't being pompous when he said he knew he was at the start of something.
How can I be like them but not have to be a workaholic or work all the time just a regular number of hours a day?
Thank you for posting this. It gives us a clearer understanding of the high level of Moore's musical skills and creative gift. In America, many people knew him only for his acting and comedy, which though equally brilliant, sadly often eclipsed his music and diminished our appreciation and enjoyment of all his other contributions to the arts. In my view, there was no one like him. His scores for "Bedazzled," "30 is a Dangerous Age..." and "Six Weeks" are truly wonderful. They along with his jazz improvisations, are both accessible and erudite, and revisiting them have brightened and enriched many days, these days, for me. I knew this TV Special existed, and finding it here made for a wonderful surprise. Thanks again for the post.
PLEASE SHARE MORE CLIPS of their ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
What a different world from today. Even those accents don't really exist these days.
A very different time and place back then, miss it myself.
If you mean the narrator there is a good reason for that? The BBC used to be very specific about who they hired to do the voiceovers etc. That is why most people sounded very posh on British TV from the 30s up until the 70s. Then attitudes changed and now the world is a giant delicate snowflake.
I'm not sure Dudley's accent existed either, bearing in mind he was from Dagenham :-)
@judgeberry6071 god, people will shoehorn the word 'snowflake' into anything these days.
@@cartnhorse It was his accent: may or may not have been the one he was brought up speaking but it was still his.
Wonderful to listen to a BBC programme of quality - those were the days!
wow!
Great music for a school orchestra. They can play all the bum notes they like and no one’ll notice.
That PMD piece is one of the few piano works I can play faultlessly.
So can my cat when he walks up and down the keyboard. He’s quite the musical prodigy. (My cat, not Maxwell Davies)
@@PikestntI don’t usually bother about innocent ignorance, and I’ll probably regret this attempt to share a bit of awareness:
While there are charlatans in the art world, the vast majority of creative people whose output can be challenging to some viewers or listeners are following their heart and/or their intellect. More specifically, Peter Maxwell Davis was astonishingly intelligent, and IF YOU SPEAK the musical languages and dialects he worked in, and advanced, it’s layered, complex, meaningful and personal.
Please consider this: when you hear a language you don’t know, Urdu or Japanese or Quechua, it’s pure gibberish to you. Even a thick enough Scottish English might be unintelligible to you. But, unless you’re five, you understand that it’s just a form of communication you don’t know. You don’t conclude the speakers are idiots.
No one is writing or performing music to annoy you.
I was a student of Peter’s during his time in Cambridge, MA and played rehearsal piano for his piece the Lighthouse. My career has been mostly in jazz and cabaret, television and pop. All good music is good music.
I’m only responding because you clumsily disparage my colleague whose work you don’t understand. To my ears, it’s like a kid making up fake Chinese, all “chings” and “chongs,” and beaming with pride in his facile, empty cleverness. But I’m sure I’d like your cat.
@@Brad4Ellis
That’s fair - Mine was a cheap shot although the fact remains that I don’t appreciate the music of PMD. Mind you, I don’t much like Britten either. (Dud famously parodied him and Peter Pears too)
Twas ever thus. People thought Mozart was rubbish
Anyway, Chaque une a sont goute and no offence taken.
See? The Internet can be polite and conciliatory 😀
And you’d love my cat
@@Pikestnt Colleague, you breathe rarified air. Thank you for your civil response!
Made when the BBC was much better than it is now.
Here in America we look up and towards to the intelligent truly intersting stuff you can find on BBC. Im saddened that this programming has changed !
Such a pity the Dudley part was so short compared to Maxwell-Davis, one wants to keep listening to him, playing and, of course, know more about his beggings. Thanks for posting.
Gotta love a bit of the brilliantly talented Duddly Moore. Now I'm Bedazzled and want you to blow me a Raspberry LOL 😂 👍
I saw a bloke the other day...
Peter's music sounds like the score from a Columbo murder scene
26 going on 40
Better than today where people act like kids well into their 30s.
@@kamandi1362 Dead right.
Peter Maxwell Davies was a hottie ❤
There's a musician here, and a comedian. But which is which? 🤔
Maxwell Davies had me in stitches the whole time.
@@neilsaunders6009 A man almost devoid of talent -- if you ask me.
@@cloudymccloud00 A man with a great deal of talent for pulling the wool over some people's eyes (and ears), clearly. It's painful to consider that there is more music in any random four bars of the theme from "Bedazzled" than in PMJ's entire output.
@@neilsaunders6009 The "avant garde" years were a very strange time -- when some with sufficient self-deluded conviction (and a deferential establishment) seemed able to get away with pretty much anything. The final moment of revelation for me with this guy was when, in later years, he attempted to write actual melodies: such as "Farewell from Stromness" -- still fawned upon by the musical establishment but (if you listen with honesty) utterly banal garbage! He had nothing on Dud.
@@cloudymccloud00 I've studied music theory, including Serial technique and Set Theory. There's some 12-Note and freely atonal music that I like, but most of it is utter drivel.
The avant-garde Emperor really has no clothes.
Gosh they sound so posh.
Really though it takes a lot of effort to sound as unmusical as PMD you have to work hard at it :)
Child abuse. hahaha. kidding. he's tops. and good old Duds? wow.
The "we are ominiously filming this person without their consent" aesthetic is really missing from modern human interest stories.