The Really Terrible Orchestra

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The Really Terrible Orchestra (ger .: really terrible orchestra , in short: RTO ) is a British amateur orchestra, from which Edinburgh originating businessman Peter Stevenson and the author Alexander McCall Smith was founded 1995th The two were looking for an orchestra for amateurs, in which they could participate in the music for fun, but couldn't find a suitable one. So they founded the RTO, with Richard Neville Towle as conductor.

On the website of the orchestra it says:

"The Really Terrible Orchestra exists to encourage those who have been prevented from playing music, either through lack of talent or some other factor, to play music in the company of similarly afflicted players. The policy of the orchestra is to make no distinction between the various grades of ability and the various forms of music, or time signature. The RTO looks forward to a further lowering of standards, in order to underline its commitment to accessibility and relevance. "

“The Really Terrible Orchestra exists to encourage people who have been prevented from making music either by lack of talent or other factors, to play in a community of like-minded people. The principle of the orchestra is to make no distinction between the differently pronounced abilities and the different musical forms or time markings. The RTO looks forward to lowering the level further to underscore its commitment to accessibility and importance. "

Smith expresses the poor quality of orchestral playing very directly:

" The name was carefully chosen: what it said was what you would get."

"The name was chosen with care: What's on it is inside."

The orchestra also includes a German, Felizitas Macfie, who was born in Munich. She joined the orchestra after attending its performances.

Every year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe there is an RTO concert. CDs of performances are sold in the foyer of Canongate Kirk, a church in Edinburgh, which is also the rehearsal room. The orchestra also appeared in Alexander McCall Smith's novel The Sunday Philosophy Club .

A documentary about the RTO, The Really Terrible Orchestra , directed by Edward Brooke-Hitching, was selected for the 60th International Edinburgh Film Festival 2006 and won the Baillie Gifford Award for Best Scottish Short Documentary.

The first concert the RTO gave in London took place on November 3, 2007 at Cadogan Hall .

On 1 April 2009, the RTO was on his first (one-day) overseas trip a concert at the Town Hall of New York City .

reception

In connection with the coverage of the orchestra in the television cultural program ttt - titel, thesen, temperamente on September 20, 2009, the Das Erste website said: “Failure can be a wonderful thing.” The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: “That Really Terrible Orchestra always plays miserably. That's why people love it. ”Christoph Winder noted in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard :“ Usually in capitalist societies it is the case that everyone who has a product to offer will praise and praise it: the cheapest sausage, the best mackerel fillet , the latest newspaper, the cleanest detergent, the tastiest treat and so on. [...] We are so used to this praise and praise that it blows us strange, but also somehow refreshing, when we suddenly [...] learn of the existence of an orchestra in Edinburgh, which ( or rather little) promising name 'Really Terrible Orchestra' (RTO). [..] Isn't that lovely? If this example caught on, we would henceforth be dealing with less boastful, but all the more honest product names. ” In an online report in 2007, the Hamburger Abendblatt referred to the orchestra's website and warned:“ Listen to audio samples at your own risk at www. thereallyterribleorchestra.com. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael White: Lousy Is the Best They Can Ever Be . In: New York Times , August 26, 2007. Retrieved November 3, 2007. 
  2. ↑ Alexander McCall Smith: Terrible Orchestra? . In: Telegraph , November 1, 2007. Retrieved November 4, 2007. 
  3. ^ Matthew Westphal: Really Terrible Orchestra Sells Out London Debut Concert . In: Playbill Arts , November 2, 2007. Retrieved November 3, 2007. 
  4. ^ Patricia Cleveland-Peck: Musical no-hopers strike chord . In: The Independent , November 4, 2007. Archived from the original on November 5, 2007 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 17, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / arts.independent.co.uk 
  5. ↑ Deborah Hoffman: Alexander McCall Smith and His 'Tuneless Wonders' . In: New York Times , April 3, 2009. Retrieved May 27, 2009. 
  6. ↑ Review: Terrible, weird, beautiful ( Memento from March 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Das Erste online
  7. ↑ The bad sound In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 10, 2009
  8. ↑ Christoph Winder: Terrible - a remarkably bad orchestra In: Der Standard online from July 14, 2009
  9. ↑ Joachim Mischke: Avanti Dilettanti! In: Hamburger Abendblatt online from December 7, 2007