1970 – BERNSTEIN’s VERDI REQUIEM – ST.PAUL’S CONCERT..and 50 years later – the recovered stereo mix!
PART ONE OF TWO By DAVID TAYLOR In February 1970 I’d only been with London Weekend TV for a few months when we broadcast a classical concert that affected me more than any other I had experienced. This was Leonard Bernstein conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in the Verdi Requiem in St.Paul’s Cathedral. As a…
1969….I MOVE ON TO LONDON WEEKEND…via THAMES
POST No. 4 by DAVID TAYLOR JUNE 2020 In 1968 Independent Television had received it’s first shake-up, when licenses were all up for renewal and although Anglia retained it’s licence, the separate weekend contracts for the North and the Midlands became full seven day ones and the North was split into two regions.London continued as…