Isle of Man Double Bass Competition

[bbates77]

Does anyone have any information on the Isle of Man Double Bass Competition in 1978? I've googled it and come up with a commisioned set piece - the David Ellis Sonata for solo double bass, and a couple of prize winners, but nothing on whether it was part of a festival or festival on it's own, how long it went for, where it was held, if anyone famous attended, etc.

[bbates77]

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Anyone?

[Andy Walker]

It took place at the Erin Arts Centre, Port Erin Isle of Man. I was a 13 year old kid at the time playing double bass in the Manx Youth Orchestra so it was quite a treat.
I have vivid memory of all the competitors playing "the elephant" on Port Erin prom conducted by a guy on an inflatable elephant which was filmed by the BBC

[bbates77]

Cool! thanks for that.

Welcome to talkbass. I noticed you've just joined.

I sort of needed the information for some program notes for a research assignment I was doing back in July, but thanks all the same ^_^

Ben

[Swerve]

A documentary about the event was recently put up on youtube, it's really fascinating to watch. Highly recommended.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTzy85j-wW4

[ThumpPlunkJunk]

Whoever put this on Reddit did a service to us all.

[Swerve]

Well I posted it on /r/doublebass.

[bengobass]

great post!
anybody knows about the istory of the Isle of Man competition after 1978?
all i can find on Google is that Duncan McTier won the 1982 edition and Chi-Chi Nwanoku won it also at some point.
there seems to be many claims on CV's but no hard facts.

[ThumpPlunkJunk]

Originally Posted by bengobass

great post!
anybody knows about the istory of the Isle of Man competition after 1978?
all i can find on Google is that Duncan McTier won the 1982 edition and Chi-Chi Nwanoku won it also at some point.
there seems to be many claims on CV's but no hard facts.

Hal was a prizewinner in 1982 as well.

I don't know why there isn't a website for this.

[chris1125]

Good find! Looking forward to watching this one