|
I honestly wanted to find a title a bit more original for this page, but originality is not really one of my strong points :p this is just a page listing the live shows where Atom Heart Mother is known to have been performed with Orchestra, please report any error/omission. venues in yellow have no recordings circulating so far. The list is based on the details reported in the "The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia" book by Vernon Fitch; the "In The Flesh" book by Glenn Povey and Ian Russell; the "The Embryo - A Pink Floyd Chronology 1966-1971" book by Nick Hodges and Ian Priston. last update: March 2005
|
|
| date / venue | conductor/orchestra |
|
1970 June 27 (Festival of Blues & Progressive Music)
Bath, Shepton Mallet, Somerset |
announced as "The Amazing
Pudding", was performed with orchestra for the first time, with the Philip Jones
Brass Ensemble orchestra & the John Aldiss Choir directed by John Aldiss. Both audio and video recordings are currently in general circulation, but the video source in still around only in an edited version. |
|
1970 July 16
(BBC recording date)
Paris Theater, London |
with the Philip Jones Brass
Ensemble orchestra & the John Aldiss Choir directed by John Aldiss. First
broadcast was on July 19 at 4pm Audio recordings are circulating both off the radio broadcast and from the BBC archives (no audience recording is currently in circulation) |
|
1970 July 18 Blackhill's Garden Party, Hyde Park free concert, London |
announced as "The Athomic Heart
Mother" with the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble orchestra & the John Aldiss
Choir directed by John Aldiss.
2 Audio recordings are in general circulation and at least 1 video recording of the event surely exists. "The Embrio" book reports: "a five hour concert from 1 to 6 pm which 100,000 people attended. The Show was privately filmed by a group of art students, but never received an official airing. The Film was however screened publicly on 2 occasions" |
|
1970 September
12 Fete de L'Humanite, Bois de Vincennes, Paris, France |
with Brass & Choir, conductor
unknown. One audio recording is currently in general circulation but cut on ASOS, so AHM is not available, someone supposes this recording to be from video. |
|
1970 September 27
(early & late
show)
Fillmore East, New York City, New York |
with the Roger Wagner Chorale
(20-voice choir),
brass conducted by Peter Philips. Only a partial recording of the early show is currently in general circulation and the date of that AHM fragment there included is in question (since there's either no orchestra or choir there audible ... the fragment is probably filled from some other date in that recording) |
|
1970
October 21 Fillmore West, San Francisco, California |
with the Roger Wagner Chorale,
brass conducted by Peter Philips
/ extra encore was a Choir-only "Ave
Maria" No recordings are currently in circulation, there are tapes (and boots also) around labeled as 70-10-21 that are really 70-4-29 |
|
1970 October 23 Civic Center, Santa Monica, California |
with the Roger Wagner Chorale,
brass conducted by Peter Philips. Two audio recordings are currently in general circulation, one is so far available on Boot LP only (incomplete) and was often mislabeled as 70-10-16 and also 71-09-28 |
|
1970 December 18 Town Hall, Birmingham |
with the Philip Jones Brass
Ensemble orchestra & the John Aldiss Choir directed by John Aldiss. No recordings are currently in general circulation |
|
1970 December 20 Colston Hall, Bristol |
with the Philip Jones Brass
Ensemble orchestra & the John Aldiss Choir directed by John Aldiss. No recordings are currently in general circulation |
|
1970 December 21 Free Trade Hall Manchester |
with the Philip Jones Brass
Ensemble orchestra & the John Aldiss Choir directed by John Aldiss. No recordings are currently in general circulation |
|
1970 December 22 Sheffield City Hall, Sheffield |
with the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble orchestra & the John Aldiss Choir directed by John Aldiss. (REMERGENCE) One audio recording is currently in circulation |
|
1971
January 17 The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London |
with the Philip Jones Brass
Ensemble orchestra & the John Aldiss Choir directed by John Aldiss. No recordings are currently in general circulation |
|
1971
February 24 Münsterlandhalle, Münster, West Germany |
with brass & choir conducted by
Jeffrey Mitchell (this was near not to happen cause the
AHM score was left in London and the crew noticed that just at 6pm, The score
arrived by air courier in Dusseldorf and escorted by a police Porsche at the
show, arrived at 10.30) No recordings are currently in general circulation, there are tapes around labeled as 71-02-24 that are really 71-11-25 |
|
1971
February 25 Großer Saal, Musikhalle , Hamburg , West Germany |
with brass & choir conducted by
Jeffrey Mitchell
One audio recording is currently in general circulation, the complete recording is so far available on LP only, but the unique AHM is also available not from LP, from genuine fan tapes (supposed to be from an alt. recorder but it is really the same recorder as the LP boot) |
|
1971
February 26 Stadthalle, Offenbach, West Germany |
with brass & choir conducted by
Jeffrey Mitchell
(REMERGENCE) Two audio recordings are currently in general circulation, one complete from fantapes and the other from LP boot includng only 2 songs (Blues and AHM), it seems that many collectors "snobbed" this alt. recorder that is rarely mentioned, it's probably a complete recorder as well, but circulated incomplete on the LP boot only so far. |
|
1971 April 03 Sportpaleis Ahoy Rotterdam, Holland |
with brass & choir conducted by
Jeffrey Mitchell
Two audio recordings are currently in general circulation, one complete from fantapes and the other from LP boot only so far (incomplete). |
|
1971
June 12 Palais des Sports, Lyon, France |
with the Philip Jones Brass
Ensemble orchestra & the John Aldiss Choir directed by John Aldiss; with a 20-voice choir plus 3
trombones, 3 trumpets and 1 tuba. One audio recording is currently in general circulation taken from the Europa 1 France radio broadcast. (no audience recordings are corrently in circulation) |
|
1971 July 1 Stiftshof, Ossiach, Austria |
with Brass & Choir, conductor unknown. the concert was part of the "3 Internationales Musikforum Ossiacheersee"; a concert programme reveals that the PF appearance was preceded by a performance of the Mozart's KV 467 piano concerto by the famous Austrian pianist Friedrich Gulda One audio recording of the Pink Floyd performance is currently in general circulation |
|
1971 September 18/19
(Festival de Musique Classique) Altes Casino, Montreux, Switzerland |
with members of the London Philarmonic Orchestra and choir; on "The Embryo" book is reported that l'Orchestre Symphonique De Vienne may have accompanied the Floyd on AHM. The Pink FLoyd performed the evening show on 9-18 and the afternoon show on 9-19. Two audio recording of the Pink Floyd performance are currently in general circulation of the eveninf show on 18/9/71 |
