Title: Not a Lot of Work or Life Before D'Oyly Carte (Paperback or Softback)
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing Limited 5/15/2025
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1836151977
ISBN 13: 9781836151975
Binding: Paperback or Softback
Condition: New
Weight: 0.59 pounds
Book Type: Book

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'Not a Lot of Work' is a prequel to 'Nothing Like Work' and 'A Bit More Like Work'. It tells of the author's early life in Greenock, his education there, his student days at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and a short period of teacher training at Jordanhill College of Education. This was followed by four years of school teaching which in turn was followed by two further periods as a full-time student, first of all at Glasgow University and then at Birmingham University, before his seven years with the world-famous D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1975 to 1982.

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David Mackie was born in Greenock and educated there and at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, Glasgow University and Birmingham University. He joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1975 as repetiteur and became chorus master and associate conductor in 1976, holding that post until the Company closed in 1982 and conducting over 500 performances of the G&S operas. Since then he has been a freelance repetiteur, accompanist and conductor. From 1984 to 2000 he toured regularly in the United States and Canada with 'The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan'. He has worked for New Sadler's Wells Opera and London Opera Players, and has been musical director for two operatic societies, pantomimes and numerous other shows. In 1989 he wrote and presented interval talks for BBC Radio 2's series of the complete G&S operas. He has also worked for Music in Hospitals and with baritone Ralph Meanley has recorded settings of Kipling's 'Barrack-Room Ballads' by the nineteenth century composer Gerard Francis Cobb.

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