Evan Marsden: Portsmouth Town - a rollicking sea piece
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Channel: PSearPianist · 2014 · Music
#6 from 'Tone Pictures from Foreign Lands' (1927) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Evan Marsden' is a pseudonym for the flamboyant Australian conductor and entertainer Eric Pechotsch (1891-1960) - better-known under another pseudonym: Eric Mareo . Mareo also composed under the name Edgar Martell. Mareo was noted, inter alia, for conducting with a tinselled baton. Mareo's colourful life included a period in England in the 1910s as pianist in a pierrot show. However, his musical life came to an abrupt halt in 1936 when he was imprisoned for the murder by poisoning of his actress wife Thelma. He seemed to specialize in exotic-themed descriptive suites. This fun piece is maybe in the style of Edward German. In the middle section he uses the halliards shanty 'Hanging Johnny', but I assume that the rest of the music is his own invention. My thumbnail shows a detail from a Thomas Rowlandson etching of Portsmouth Point. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk (Email: [email protected] WhatsApp: http://wa.me/441444483794 ) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pianogems
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