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Переслать - Football-inspired music: composers find their perfect pitch
As the World Cup kicks off, so have the novelty records. But the beautiful game has inspired composers from Elgar to Nyman
On the first day of the great international kickabout in South Africa, and as a lorry-load of national anthems and novelty records flood the airwaves and the internet, everywhere from South Korea to Spain, it's worth remembering the musical inspiration that the beautiful game has had on composers whose ambitions stretch even further than Chris Waddle's on Top of the Pops. So here's my pick of the football-indebted pieces you won't be hearing on the terraces this summer …
The first-ever football chant written by a great composer was by Elgar in 1898, whose devotion to Wolverhampton Wanderers is commemorated with a plaque at the club's Molineux ground. Elgar saw the phrase "he banged the leather for goal" in a newspaper report of a match, and was so inspired by this quaint locution that he set it to music – this music, to be precise. Not sure it ever actually caught on at Molineux, but Wolves's fans reportedly sing Nimrod from Elgar's Enigma Variations at home matches.
The same year (1898 was a corker for sports-related music), Charles Ives composed the single best two-minute condensation of a football match (OK, American football) ever written. This is his Yale-Princeton Football Game, marking the Yale Bulldogs' 6-0 victory over the Princeton Tigers. Everything's in there, from Yale chants, to dodged tackles, and the concluding touchdown. A terrific performance this too, from the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and James Sinclair on YouTube.
Back with euro-soccer: Bohuslav Martinu's Half-Time, a Rondo for Large Orchestra, was composed in 1925 as a football-crazy round-dance, and the earthiness of Poulenc's Gloria came to him, the composer said, after seeing "some serious Benedictine monks … revelling in a game of football".
Among today's British contemporary composers, there's a rich seam of football-related works: Arsenal fan Mark-Anthony Turnage includes a terrace chant in his orchestral piece Momentum, and there are football scenes and references in his operas Greek and The Silver Tassie. James MacMillan is a celebrated Celtic fan, who is unafraid to involve himself in some Rangers-Celtic chant-related stooshie, and there are traces of the terraces in the football rattles in his Britannia, an orchestral work from 1994. Michael Nyman has done more than both of them, though: there's his Beckham Crosses, Nyman Scores, which uses John Motson's commentary as the basis of a Different Trains-style fusion of sampled speech and instrumental music, and After Extra Time, a whole album of football-related pieces that takes in a musical five-a-side between "Riff Athletic and Riff Rangers", a homage to Nyman's beloved Queen's Park Rangers, and a memorial to the Juventus fans killed at the Heysel stadium in 1985.
There are many other musical connections with football, like the games nostalgically remembered by AE Housman in his poem, Is My Team Ploughing, and set in my favourite musicalisation of it by George Butterworth; the fact that critic, musicologist, and radiophonic guru Hans Keller was a passionate football fan and wrote a book called Music, Closed Societies and Football; and that Percy M Young was a biographer of Handel, Vaughan Williams, Elgar – and Bolton Wanderers. Thanks to Radio 3 producer, and Aldershot Town fan, Lindsay Kemp, for these last football-related thoughts. You will have your own, so let's hear them. And if you want to hear a genuinely well-crafted bit of football-pop, with nary a perm in sight, my mate Jono Buchanan has written a new song that was part of the World Cup Kick-Off concert in South Africa last night – you can hear Believe here.
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This week's show kicks off with 2010's most prolific pop star, Robyn. The With Every Heartbeat singer returns with the first of three (three!) albums this year, and she tells Rosie Swash why she's doing this in such a short space of time. Robyn also explains why she's finally found her sound – apparently, it was down the back of the sofa all this time.
In Singles Club, The Swash joins Alexis Petridis and Dorian Lynskey to dissect Mark Ronson's Circuit Breaker, MIA's I'm a Singer (which we mistakenly referred to as Haters, sorry!), and Aeroplane's We Can't Fly.
And finally, we hear from UK garage pioneer MJ Cole about what inspired his return to the dance scene after a lengthy hiatus.
That's all for this week, but we'll be back next Friday. In the meantime, come and find us on Twitter or Facebook. Enjoy!
Переслать - Readers recommend: Songs about the weekend
Last week was all about the power of the flower, but from here on in, we're living for the weekend
After a week giving each other flowers, I hope everyone is full of the joys of early summer. Rather that than full of dread at the inexorable approach of autumn and all the withering decay that accompanies it. I was struck last week by how flowers provoked just as much melancholy in musicians as they did ecstasy, and I hope we have an A list that reflects that dichotomy.
The A List (and column discussing it): Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave – Where the Wild Roses Grow; The Zombies – A Rose for Emily; Noel Coward – London Pride; Ahmad Jamal – Poinciana; Georges Bizet – The Flower Song; Laura Cantrell – When the Roses Bloom Again; Tony Joe White – Polk Salad Annie; Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Gardenia; Tindersticks – Cherryblossom; The Jaynetts – Sally Go Round the Roses.
And now, a bouquet of B:
White Stripes – Blue Orchid
What witchcraft here? Someone, somehow has taken a white orchid and turned it blue. Jack White can muster only one response and that is to forge a hook of such overpowering ferocity, that the orchid turns itself white again.
Animal Collective – In the Flowers
Typically outre effort from the digitally encrypted Beach Boys, with a couple of ecstatic lines about losing one's self amidst the flowers.
XTC – Humble Daisy
More Beach Boys flavours, more escapism, but this time a fantastical adventure in the company of the flower that no one else will sing about. Includes some lovely lines: "Cast the milk and coins of morning's cash about/ Humble daisy"
Einstürzende Neubauten – Blüme
Creepy art rock in which people offer to be flowers for other people. Whatever floats your boat, I suppose, but I enjoyed the piece's clockwork rhythm.
Duke Ellington – Single Petal of a Rose
Perhaps that single petal is like the simple phrase upon which this tune is built; delicate yet vibrant and leaving traces wherever it passes.
Bette Midler – The Rose
We don't often have ballads in these here lists, certainly not those which are comprised just of vocals and piano. Bette Midler breaks that glass ceiling though with a powerfully understated consideration of the nature of love (which, she concludes, is like a rose)
MF Doom – Jasmine Blossoms
Caught me unawares this, it being not a rap track but an instrumental with a sweet if somewhat otherworldly melody.
Otis Taylor – Five Hundred Roses
I suspect this was to my own ears only, but I perceived a Middle Eastern tinge to this piece of banjo blues, one I found quite intriguing. More about bereavement than flowers per se, but those roses do feature.
Elvis Costello – Good Year for the Roses
I chose Tindersticks for the A list, but this, too, is a sharp sketch of a relationship heading south, in which the man has nothing to say beyond banal observations about the state of the garden (we've all been there eh, fellas?)
Bobbie Gentry – Sweet Peony
SoWC confessed that this was OT as soon as he posted, but coming across it on the collabo first, I was really hoping for it to be relevant. A great, spiky, bewitching piece of southern rock. (And while the sweet peony is a drink, maybe it comes served with a flower on top?)
This week, the topic is the weekend. Again there is a venn-style intersection with a previous list – songs about Saturday and Sunday – and you can check out the selections on the Marconium. Not only do I include Sunday in any definition of the weekend, however, I'm also interested in the idea of the weekend as an escape from the week. It's basically all been said by Hard-Fi, but I thought it might be worth checking if there were any other contributions worth noting.
I am away this weekend and the beginning of next week so will not be around for criteria clarification. I'm sure, however, that you'll be fine without me. Until next week then. Come on England (and other participating nations in the Fifa World Cup, and indeed those taking part in alternative non-footballing events)!.
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