Concerto for Group and Orchestra

12 thoughts on “Concerto for Group and Orchestra”

1. Hi,
   just wanted to ask, if the ‘Study Score’ is available yet? Or when it will be?
   Thanks

2. The score is in production now and will be available soon through Hal Leonard. All details will be published on jonlord.org as soon as we have them.

3. About the concerto study score, is it going to be printed or not?
   I’ve been waiting for ages. Thanks

4. Hello,
   I’m music student in french (University of Reims) and a great fan of Jon Lord.
   I search the complet score of the concerto for group and orchestra by Jon Lord for my studies and me. But i dont find this score now here…
   Please, help me !
   Cordially, Mr LARUE Jean-René.
   PS: sorry for my english

5. Misters, when will be availabre the score of the concert, for sale’
   Thanks

6. Dear Celso Torres-Mora,
   The score Is available now in a print-your-own pdf edition – here: http://jonlordshop.org/scores.html

   Best regards,
   – Rasmus

7. I worked as an usher at the Hollywood Bowl in 1970 and saw the August 25th show from the box seats. It was an awesome show! Just an interesting note – about 3-5 weeks before the show, I was at the back office and noticed a record album that was purple and had “Deep Purple” in script. I picked it up and “Deep Purple” was the album name by 101 Strings. Someone said they were booked at the Bowl and I said “the rock band?” and they said no, it was an orchestra named 101 Strings. It was a subscription seat night so I thought nothing of it until I heard it advertised on KHJ and, happily for me, it was the rock band! I told HB management they hired a rock band and they insisted I was wrong – it was an orchestra. So the night of the show, I was at the box seat entrance handing out programs and there was a mix of the usual subscription seat ticket holders dressed in suits and dresses – classical night dress and a more “mature” crowd , and a huge crowd of “hippies”. HB management asked me why are all these hippies showing up? And I told them because you hired a rock band, and I’m not sure your subscription seat holders know what they’re in for. He pulled me over to the box seats and pointed to the stage set up for an orchestra and said – see it’s an orchestra! Then I pointed out the huge amps that lined the back, pretty sure they were Marshalls, and told him yeah, they may be playing WITH an orchestra, but you have a rock band playing tonight, not 101 Strings. That’s when he looked worried.
   So the show started with the concerto for group and orchestra for over 30 minutes – very enjoyable-, then the band walks on, plugs into the amps and WOW! Definite volumn increase! It took about 15 minutes for most of the subscription seat people to clear out, and all the hippies moved down front. It was a great concert all the way around!!!
   HB Mushroom 1969-1975

8. Now that Jon Lord is in heaven, it is possible to play a short version of the Concert with its highlights and a reduced orchestra

9. We receive a few requests of this kind, and while of course we want to encourage as many performances of Jon’s music as possible, it’s important at the same time to make sure that these are as Jon would have wanted. For this reason, performances of the Concerto for Group and Orchestra can only be in the original form that Jon himself authorised.

10. Are there any plans for a 50th anniversary performance of the Concerto? I was at the 30th anniversary concert (the Sunday night one) and it was one of the most magical nights imaginable. It would be wonderful to see a 5th anniversary commemoration in some form.

11. To perform Concerto with reduced orchestra pieces? Are you kidding?))) It’s like, let’s go and remove some boring parts out of Rachmaninov’s 3rd Concerto. Or let’s loop the riff from Smoke on the Water and listen it for 3 hours to get that wonderful flashing effect of vacuum cleaner stucked right into your ears. No!)

    Mr. Paul Mann did fantastic job in 1999 conducting it all together in tight unit. The problem with 1969 version was named Ritchie Blackmore and his musical exhibitionism. And he agreed with it himself later. It just wasn’t rehearsed and conducted very well, so 1999 version obviously stronger. Sorry for being straight, just named it as it is. Cheers.

12. Difficult to believe that the score was lost along the 70’s, because the score of Gemini Suite or Sarabande were not lost at all, of they were? Nobody seems interested in publishing those scores.