FOOD AND MUSIC
Concerto For Gourmet
(H .Z-PA.-Renter— Copyright) LONDON. November 13. Ac '•astonishing” new concerto wiH be played for the first time at London's Royal Foottval Hall this month. While it it being performed j a man will sit on stage and consume a six-course meal followed by brandy and a t cigar. The man, Uie impresario, Henry Sherek, a distinguished gourmet, will be soloist in the premiere of Malcolm Arnold’* “Grand Concerto GaStrooomique for Eater. Waiter, Food and Orchestra.” It promises to be the taghMght of this year’s Hoffnung Music Festival on November 28. said/the “Evening News.” As the six movements of the concerto are being played, Mr Sherek will eat oysters, soup, roast beef, peche Melba, cheese, coffee and brandy. There will be wines with each course, and cigars to follow. “This is a serious work,” Mr Arnold said today. "Eating is a great art—something I frit which should be celebrated muriceMy."
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29672, 16 November 1961, Page 9
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155FOOD AND MUSIC Press, Volume C, Issue 29672, 16 November 1961, Page 9
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