Alec Robertson
Sun, Mar 27 2011, 8:16AM
Can anyone please tell me the year he died.
He had a beautiful speaking voice.
Mon, Mar 28 2011, 9:48PM
#2
RE: Alec Robertson
Thank you James. I am trying to supplement information about him in his books listed in Open Library but some wrongly give a year of birth in the 1920s. Could I trouble you to give his dob and where born - and his full name.
I remember many things pretty well from reading The Gramophone over and over again from end to end in the 1950s and maybe it was AR who reviewed the Flagstad - Suthaus Tristan. If not, it was DS-T.
'She is far forth on that flood.'
The impression was such that he wrote of sitting way into the night in his E Anglian (Suffolk?) home.
Younger people may not be able to appreciate the effect the issue of such an opera on LP had in those days. I could afford only discs 1 and 2 ... .
Tue, Mar 29 2011, 12:55PM
#3
RE: Alec Robertson
According to Anthony Pollard's Gramophone. The first 75 years, AR was born in 1891 (in Blackburn); sadly an exact DOB isn't given. Here's the Gramophone obituary by William Chislett.
Tue, Mar 29 2011, 4:35PM
#4
RE: Alec Robertson
Sorry James, but the link to the obit leads to W R Anderson bn Blackburn.
Wed, Mar 30 2011, 11:16PM
#5
RE: Alec Robertson
I am thankful for the erroneous link because I have been unsuccessful in tracking down all but tasty snippets or information in passing about the notoriously curmudgeonly WRA.
He seemed to have almost relished the difference between himself and the priestly AR.
Much as I still retain respect for William Chislett as his reviews are as sound today as they were when they first appeared, WRA, in comparison, strikes me, on occasion as having had one to many during the writing of his reviews.
Mon, Aug 22 2011, 10:07AM
#6
RE: Alec Robertson
Hello Segilla
Alec Robertson wrote an autobiography: are you aware of this? Am researching on Roberston and other writers of the 1940s and 1950s - could you get in contact please? richard_coombs@btinternet.com
Alec Robertson (AR) died on January 29, 1979, aged 87 (his obituary ran in the March 1979 issue).