Jon Lord and the Philharmonic Orchestra Hagen: Concerto for Group and Orchestra Hits like “Smoke on the water” and “Here I go again” made him and his band famous all over the world: Jon Lord, founding member and ex-keyboardplayer with Deep Purple. Already in 2008 he worked with the Philharmonic Orchestra Hagen. The outcome was … Continue reading Interview: Music is communication
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Ex-Deep Purple keyboardplayer Jon Lord performed the symphonic “Concerto for Group and Orchestra” in the Grugahalle. The audience thanked with standing ovations. As the last tunes of the encore “Child in Time” faded, the 1900 listeners in the theatre-style Grugahalle got up for another standing ovation. If it had been for the most people, the … Continue reading Review: His Lordship asked to ba-roque
“Concerto for Group and Orchestra”: Jon Lord’s fusion of rock and classical music. Essen, February 3, 2009 - interview below Besides Pink Floyd, Deep Purple were one of the most creative bands out of Britain. Their first songs could be ascribed to the pop genre – but already contained single classical quotations. Together with Jon … Continue reading Review: Wildly staged mix of genres
Jon Lord's recent concert in Essen attracted a fair share of press coverage. Here are three examples. In an interview with the Haken magazine before the concert Jon Lord talks about music as a form of communication. - On paper music is only a line of black dots. The music only comes into existence when … Continue reading Media watch: His Lordship in Essen
On February 3 Jon Lord will perform The Concerto for Group and Orchestra in Essen, Germany. - When we did it in Hagen last February we were going do one night but so many people were interested that we had to do two nights. We got standing ovations. - In the second half I play … Continue reading Preparing for Purple and the classics in Essen
Jon Lord is gearing up for his concert in Essen, Germany on February 3 - in the Grugahalle, where he used to perform with both Deep and Whitesnake. - We played several times in the Grugahalle in Essen. I think one of the first big concerts that Deep Purple played when we started to get … Continue reading Going back to Grugahalle
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