Many years I bought Deep Purple's Concerto for Group and Orchestra. It was a great favourite and I'd take it to music lessons for the Director of Music to play for the form. He liked it. Deep Purple was one of my favourite bands. Jon Lord, who wrote the piece, quite brilliant. I recently saw this on You Tube:
https://youtu.be/dr1-KaquogI
...is something that former UK PM, Tony Blair, made New Labour's political manifesto as they - and he - rose to power in 1997. The destruction of the UK, under New Labour, cannot be underestimated. So
I've just discovered that, sadly, Tony Gilbert, with whom I studied Composition in the early 1990s, has died. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/18/anthony-gilbert-obituary Tony was an excelle