tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7807018700599489326.post9074449932467732745..comments2024-03-24T07:52:17.996+00:00Comments on British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Felton Rapley: Down the Solent: OvertureJohn Francehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661182422946581010noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7807018700599489326.post-65297148908692592812022-01-16T18:32:10.484+00:002022-01-16T18:32:10.484+00:00Mark
Thanks for that!
JMark<br />Thanks for that!<br />JJohn Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11450264096307177111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7807018700599489326.post-63864574294141214612022-01-16T14:29:27.139+00:002022-01-16T14:29:27.139+00:00David Caryll was an Orchestrator / Music Arranger ...David Caryll was an Orchestrator / Music Arranger / Song writer. He wrote a no.7 Hit for Ruby Murray in the 1950's called, "I'll Come When You Call". Although I didn't ever get to meet him, he was my grandfather.Mark Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14383919342108274735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7807018700599489326.post-3711137688818364522016-12-03T13:31:22.637+00:002016-12-03T13:31:22.637+00:00I was there too but I think after Chris. It was a ...<br />I was there too but I think after Chris. It was a privilege to be in St. Martin's choir in Epsom. I assumed that all church organists were of that calibre but learnt differently later. Those years, in the early sixties, gave me an abiding love of church music and laid the path for ordination that came about many years later. John WatkinsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7807018700599489326.post-16637767020598800712016-10-05T20:53:50.828+01:002016-10-05T20:53:50.828+01:00I away a boy chorister at St Martins Epsom, when t...I away a boy chorister at St Martins Epsom, when the choirmaster was Felton Rapley. We were appallingly behaved but he put up with us because we could sing. A bluff large man with a huge white moustache, a brilliant organist as even we were able to perceive at that early age. We didn't know how lucky we were to have had him as our leader. I think we sang a piece of his 'Fear not o Land' - not the Elgar version - does anybody know it. I can remember the first lines. I wish he were alive today so that I could apologise and tell him how much he gave me. Such is life.<br /><br />Chris PageChris pagenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7807018700599489326.post-29006914502503262982014-12-26T03:35:58.919+00:002014-12-26T03:35:58.919+00:00As a former contributor to the JIM magazine which ...As a former contributor to the JIM magazine which had been published by the Robert Farnon Society, and a present contributor to its website, I am well aware of the worth of the music of Felton Rapley, and repeatedly commented on it and referred to it. Much of it unfortunately lay buried for years in the vaults of the Chappell Mood Library, to be extracted only for specific purposes. Nowadays, I'm happy to say, much of this music is being brought to the surface and revived, so to speak, so that many interested in this genre of light music may have the opportunity to listen to it and to study it.William Zuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00118040902782440064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7807018700599489326.post-63114593919758360912014-04-19T12:24:41.063+01:002014-04-19T12:24:41.063+01:00I came across Felton Rapley (great name!) as the a...I came across Felton Rapley (great name!) as the arranger (for domestic piano) of a selection of tunes from "Zuleika", a 1950s musical by Peter Tranchell (a composer I'm surprised not to find mentioned on your blog).Crispin Flowernoreply@blogger.com