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From Darkness to… German Radio

May 14, 2012

On Tuesday evening May 15, German WDR 3 radio will broadcast live as Jon’s From Darkness To Light, A Prayer For The Millenium is being performed by the Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Florian Ludwig at Hagen Stadthalle.

The broadcast starts at 20.05 on WDR 3 and will feature the world premiere of Jon’s new arrangement of From Darkness To Light, A Prayer For The Millenium for tenor, choir and large orchestra.

The evening’s programme opens with In The South by Edward Elgar, continues with Jon’s piece and concludes with Jean Sibelius‘ Symphony No. 5.

More:
Hagen Orchestra info and tickets
WDR 3′s website
Listen live online

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Those tingling words – pt. 1

April 20, 2012

Website update:
We’re adding lyrics to Jon’s website. Starting with his most popular album, here are three songs from Pictured Within:

Pictured Within itself
Evening Song
Wait a While

Over time we aim to add all the words written by (or to) Jon for his music. Tell us your favourites, and we’ll try to do those first.

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Jon doubles up in Classic FM Hall of Fame 2012

April 10, 2012

Jon’s Durham Concerto and Boom of the Tingling Strings have both been voted into this year’s Classic FM Hall of Fame.

The results of UK’s biggest classical music poll were revealed over Easter, and Jon’s music has secured him two spots in the Top 300.

Classic FM writes:

“The transfer from pop or rock musician to classical music supremo is a path many have attempted to tread, with only limited success. In the case of the former Deep Purple keyboard player Jon lord, though, the traversal from one genre to another has been triumphant.”

#87 - Durham Concerto has climbed an impressive 66 places.

#242 - Boom of the Tingling Strings has re-entered the Classic FM Hall of Fame and is Jon’s second entry this year.

The albums

durham-concerto.jpgDurham Concerto was released in January 2008 and is among Jon’s most accomplished works. Listen to selected excerpts here:

- Durham Awakes (4:05 mp3 4Mb)
- Rags & Galas (2:41 mp3 3Mb)
- Road from Lindisfame (5:57 mp3 5Mb) 

Boom of the Tingling Strings was released in March 2008. The piece has autobiographical flavours. You can listen to EMI Classic’s podcast-special on the album.

Buy:
Durham Concerto
Boom of the Tingling Strings

Check out the entire Top 300 of the Classic FM Hall of Fame 2012.

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Support Jon Lord on eBay

March 28, 2012

Jon’s eBay store carries a selection of Jon’s solo works, including the Bucharest CD and DVD:

 

 

Some of the older releases – including Deep Purple and the Hoochie Coochie Men - are offered at lowered discounted prices.

Support Jon on eBay.

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Vote for Jon in Classic FM’s Hall of Fame 2012

February 1, 2012

It’s that time of the year again. Classic FM are taking votes for their Hall of Fame 2012.

Jon has featured prominently in the poll the past few years. In 2010, both the Durham Concerto and Boom of the Tingling Strings entered the Top 10 of pieces by living composers.

It would be wonderful if the Durham Concerto could retain its position in the Classic FM Hall of Fame, but please don’t vote for Concerto for Group and Orchestra as it is not on Classic FM’s playlist.

Have your say and help put Jon into Classic FM’s Hall of Fame this year too.

Click here to vote.

Read more about Jon’s history with Classic FM’s Hall of Fame.

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Thank you everyone for 2011

January 11, 2012

In July, Jon Lord was made honorary Doctor of Music at Leicester University

Happy New Year to all of you, our visitors here at Jon’s website.

2011 was by no means an ordinary year for any of us. Here’s a look at how his website fared through it all.

JonLord.org was viewed about 400,000 times in 2011. 

London Olympic Stadium holds 80,000 people. So if we were competing there, it would take about 5 sold-out events for that many people to see us. Thank you all.

Not surprisingly, August 10th was our busiest day with 15,530 views for our most read post – A Message from Jon.

Since then, you guys have posted more than 1.000 kind and loving messages to Jon, for which he has already thanked you. It is all very heart warming and inspiring.

Our most read articles in 2011
1. A Message from Jon - August 2011
2. Jon: Your responses have touched my heart – August 2011
3. Jon Lord releases orchestral live album – August 2011
4. Lord & Wakeman world premiere at Sunflower Jam – July 2011
5. Jon Lord Blues Project release live CD – July 2011

Where do you all come from?
Most of you come from Germany with United Kingdom and USA not far behind.

But we get visitors from every corner of the world; Japan, Greenland, Mexico, Iran, South Africa, Brazil, Russia, etc, etc. You are all very welcome here.

How do you find us?
Our top referring sites in 2011 were:
• facebook.com
• thehighwaystar.com
• picturedwithin.com
• en.wikipedia.org
• de.wikipedia.org

Want to say something?
Thank you all for your continued support. Remember, you can keep up with us via Facebook, Twitter and our RSS-feed (links top right).

Your messages to Jon, to this website, and your opinions and thoughts in general are welcome in the comments box below.

With the best wishes for 2012.

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Jon for BBC Proms 2012?

December 10, 2011

Do you want to see Jon’s music performed at the prestigious BBC Proms in 2012?

Then please sign the petition at The Petition Site.

This is the initiative of one of Jon’s fans, Elinor Bostock. We support it here on Jon’s website and at his management.

Jon has not made a comment.

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Jon says thank you for Classic Rock Innovator Award

December 2, 2011

© Foruli PublicationsWhen Classic Rock Awards recently honoured Deep Purple with The Innovator Award, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and Ian Paice were there to accept the award.

Ian Paice read out this message from Jon:

I very much wanted to be there this evening to stand with these fine chaps - my musical companions of more than forty years and indeed my friends for a lifetime – but, although my progress is really good, I am finding that the treatment I am undergoing often leads me more towards a cup of cocoa and an early night than to a bottle of red wine with it’s accompanying table-full of wonderfully scurrilous gossipmongers and joke-tellers.

May I add my heartfelt thanks for this award and for recognising that what we did - when we were just five brave lads with no regard for boundaries but with an abiding love of writing and playing music – was indeed innovative. It was also loud, down and dirty, subversive and dangerous, intricate and yet often blindingly simple, very exciting to play and above all else it was astonishingly good fun - and yes we did “dance and sing and stand on a mountaintop.” Didn’t we just.

My heartfelt thanks too to the gentlemen on the stage for being part of changing my life and for playing like heroes. Oh, and please don’t forget who first bullied them into playing with an orchestra!

I’ll see you down the road somewhere.

God bless.

Jon Lord

Photo: Ian Gillan, Ian Paice and Roger Glover at the Classic Rock Awards, © Foruli Publications

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Christmas Sale at Jon Lord’s web shop

December 2, 2011

Visit the Christmas Sale at Jon’s web shop.

The new Bucharest DVD + CD are now shipping, as is the new Jon Lord With Pictures official documentary DVD – updated with new 2011 content.

Also available are t-shirts and Jon’s solo albums.

Prices include postage – remember to choose your country.

Go to Jon Lord’s web shop.

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Bucharest DVD out now (+ Christmas Sale!)

November 28, 2011

The highly anticipated DVD of Jon’s Bucharest 2009 concert is finally here. Check out the taster clip below – and head over to the shop to order your copy.

The DVD was filmed in Bucharest, Romania on November 5, 2009 and features the full second half of Jon’s concert that night.

It includes tracks from Sarabande, Pictured Within, Beyond The Notes – as well as three Deep Purple favourites rearranged by Jon Lord for full symphony orchestra.

Coinciding with this DVD release, Jon Lord’s Webshop has also launched its Christmas Sale with massive discounts on several of Jon Lord’s other solo projects.

You also get 50% off the Bucharest CD if you buy it now with the new DVD.

Visit Jon Lord’s Webshop

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