| Description | Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 3.22 Description of track: Start to tape (background music, noises, extracts of talking including Charles Parker, footsteps)
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 4.37 Description of track: Charles Parker interviews a performer Alec Davidson (plays banjo, mandolin, guitar) who is recording himself on tape recorder so that he can listen to himself and criticise his playing, talks about influences on his guitar playing of Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly and then developed his own style, when playing the mandolin he trys to follow Bill Munroe and Mike Seeger; talks about playing in folk clubs and the types of music he plays using the American folk style guitar to accompany English folk song [interview stops abruptly]
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 15.20 Description of track: Live music recordings; some speech during music rehearsals; explanation by unnamed male to Charles Parker on a tour around Wortley Hall of who is rehearsing, the layout of the rooms available to the musicians etc Charles Parker comments on the tour; extracts of background music and instruction from various rehearsals and rooms visited throughout the tour
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 11.10 Description of track: Charles Parker interviews the deputy conductor of the CWS Manchester Band; he talks about originating from South Wales; Charles explains that he is from the BBC and involved in the production of the Radio Ballads and interested to see what happening at Wortley Hall; interviewee been playing brass for 38 years; talks about brass playing and music
Total duration: (min/sec): 34.29 |