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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
British orchestra
Also known as: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
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association with McCartney
- In Paul McCartney: Other work and assessment
…performed in 1991 by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral, where McCartney once failed his audition as a choirboy. He subsequently oversaw the recording of his other classical compositions, including Standing Stone (1997), Working Classical (1999), and Ecce Cor Meum (2006). In 2001 a volume of his…
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role of Rattle
- In Simon Rattle
…the assistant conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. During that period, Rattle conducted his first opera, Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, at the 1977 Glyndebourne Festival in Sussex, England. In 1980 he began an 18-year tenure as principal conductor and artistic adviser (in 1990 title changed to music…
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