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Having A Hand In It (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Having A Hand In It (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Eric Wetherell led a varied and rewarding career. After his student
days at Oxford and the Royal College of Music, he became an
orchestral horn player for various orchestras. In the late 50s he
was a repetiteur with the Royal Opera House where he worked closely
with Britten, Solti, Giulini, Sargent and Kempe whom he admired
above all. As assistant musical director with Welsh National Opera
he worked on most of the large grand operas. At the first
performance by the Welsh National Opera in Bristol in 1968, Eric
conducted 'Rigoletto'. Ken Loveland (The Times) wrote "Eric
Wetherell's conducting, tense, tightly controlled, and completely
informed about all the dramatic stresses which make this Italian
opera's first really great score, was a foundation on which a
convincing stage performance could grow..." (Eric was invited to
the WNO's 50th anniversary production at the Bristol Hippodrome in
2018). During his time as principal conductor of the BBC Northern
Ireland Orchestra and senior producer for BBC Radio 3 in the South
West, he was in the position to play an enormous range of music
from light classics and jazz to Haydn and Strauss within a single
recording session. A lover of film all his life, he extended his
composition skills to writing film music, in particular when he was
Musical Director for Harlech Television in Wales and the South
West. He went on to produce short films which he edited himself,
and film scripts based on subjects that held a great interest for
him. An excellent and enthusiastic jazz man, he led two jazz
orchestra in South Wales and, later, in Bristol. He also enjoyed
playing as part of a jazz quartet, particularly enjoying the
informality of pub gigs. His love of humour and his many anecdotes,
often true stories from his professional career, endeared him to
the many people he came in contact with.
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