Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up.
FOR A performance by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Beethoven’s Overture Leonora No. 3, at the Albert Hall, a trumpet player was despatched to the topmost gallery to play the fanfare.
Unfortunately, just before he played, he was grabbed by a security guard who believed him to be an intruder, and ejected from the hall.
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Stan, the orchestra was the London Philharmonic (there are hundreds of ‘Philharmonics’ round the world, always identified by their town city or country) or more probably the Philarmonia.
This incident happened many years ago, and the interesting thig is that the trumpeter in question was Elgar Howarth, who went on to become one of the world’s top trumpeters, as well as a well-known conductor and composer (and leading light in the brass band world).