61-445: Culshaw is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John Culshaw (1924–1980), English classical record producer Jon Culshaw (born 1968), English impressionist and comedian Mitchell Culshaw (born 2001), English footballer Peter Culshaw (born 1973), English boxer See also [ edit ] Cutshaw [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
122-473: A Labour MP. Crosby became part of the municipal borough of Crosby in 1937 by the merger of the urban districts of Great Crosby and Waterloo with Seaforth , both in the administrative county of Lancashire . This borough was succeeded by the new Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside on 1 April 1974. For elections to Sefton Council Crosby is covered by a range of council wards as detailed above:
183-581: A capacity of 2,250 (400 Seated) and is famous for hosting Tottenham Hotspur F.C. in the FA Cup 3rd round in January 2021. Crosby is served by the railway stations of Hall Road , Blundellsands and Crosby , and Waterloo , on the Northern Line of the region's commuter rail network, Merseyrail . Trains run between Southport and Hunts Cross via Liverpool Central . Bus services run by Arriva and Stagecoach link
244-661: A change. He was growing disenchanted with the top management of Decca, which he believed had lost its pioneering enthusiasm. He moved from the record industry to become BBC Television 's head of music programmes. He inaugurated, and supervised several series of, André Previn's Music Night , in which Previn would talk informally direct to camera and then turn and conduct the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), whose members were dressed not in evening clothes but in casual sweaters or shirts. The programme attracted unprecedented viewing figures for classical music; an historian of
305-474: A child, Culshaw was self-taught musically, and had no ambitions to be a performer. The critic and biographer Richard Osborne wrote of him, "Like many people for whom music is an obsession, Culshaw was a lonely and meticulous person, jealously guarding the sense of personal integrity which his precocious interest in music had helped form and deepen." While in the Fleet Air Arm, Culshaw "wrote articles on music by
366-640: A concert-hall. He later initiated the Benson and Hedges music festival at Snape and was planning the fourth season at the time of his death. Some of his BBC programmes have been preserved on DVD, including films of the Amadeus Quartet playing works by Schubert and Britten. He took time off from the BBC to return to the recording studio, rejoining his old Decca engineering team in 1971 to produce Der Rosenkavalier , conducted by Leonard Bernstein . In 1975, Culshaw left
427-409: A guide to modern music ( A Century of Music in 1952). By 1947 Culshaw had been given the chance to produce classical sessions for Decca's rapidly expanding catalogue. At Decca, the musicians whom he recorded included Ida Haendel , Eileen Joyce , Kathleen Ferrier and Clifford Curzon . In 1948 he first worked with Georg Solti , a pianist and aspiring conductor. In 1950, after the introduction of
488-554: A multi-sport club featuring cricket, hockey, crown green bowls, squash, racketball and snooker, is situated in the Moor Park area of Crosby. Near Thornton . Crosby Marina is the home of Crosby Sailing Club and is open to all dinghy sailors of any ability or experience. The marina is also a venue for the Crosby Scout and Guide Marina Club , who offer dinghy and kayak sailing to local youngsters. Blundellsands Bridge Club, affiliated to
549-445: A position of great influence in the classical music world. The Gramophone obituarist wrote of him in 1980: "To meet John Culshaw for the first time, quiet, charming, sharp-eyed but with no signs of aggressiveness about him, was to marvel that here was one of the two great dictators of recording art. If Walter Legge in a flash had one registering extrovert forcefulness in the very picture of a dictator, John Culshaw's comparable dominance
610-423: A properly-made sound recording should create what he called "a theatre of the mind". He disliked live recordings such as those attempted at Bayreuth; to him they were technically flawed and, crucially, were merely sound recordings of a theatrical performance. He sought to make recordings that compensated for the lack of the visual element by subtle production techniques, impossible in live recordings, that conjured up
671-464: A series of innovations to bring classical music to the television viewer. He later undertook several academic posts. He remains best remembered for his Decca records; along with Fred Gaisberg and Walter Legge , he was one of the most influential producers of classical recordings. The Times said of him that "he stood in that great tradition of propagandists from Henry Wood to Leonard Bernstein , who seek to bring their love and knowledge of music to
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#1733085929963732-451: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles John Culshaw John Royds Culshaw , OBE (28 May 1924 – 27 April 1980) was a pioneering English classical record producer for Decca Records . He produced a wide range of music, but is best known for masterminding the first studio recording of Wagner 's Der Ring des Nibelungen , begun in 1958. Largely self-educated musically, Culshaw worked for Decca from
793-696: Is home to Antony Gormley's art installation Another Place . The sea views were described in the 19th century by a First Lord of the Admiralty as second only to the Bay of Naples . Crosby's environs include several miles of beach , a marina , a number of parks and a large area of woodland known as Ince Woods. Crosby is home to a now closed Carnegie Library built with donations from the American steel magnate Andrew Carnegie . Distinctive buildings in Crosby Village include
854-624: Is served by the local newspaper, Liverpool Echo (and also formerly the Crosby Herald ). Marine AFC ( association football ) and Waterloo RUFC ( rugby union ) are both based in the area. Crosby is also home to Crosby Swimming Club, a member of the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA). Who are also in m and d division one and headed by head coach Lee Martin and supported by many other experienced coaches such as Nigel Forshaw, Damien Lyons and Ben Gilbertson The Northern Club ,
915-528: The 1981 Crosby by-election where Shirley Williams of the Social Democratic Party was elected to represent the constituency. As a result of boundary revisions for the 2010 general election the Crosby constituency was abolished and Crosby town was divided between two constituencies, with the two electoral wards of South Crosby, Church and Victoria, containing the urbanised bulk of the town which includes
976-600: The Art Nouveau -inspired Crown Buildings and ten pubs – The Crows Nest, The Birkey, The George, Blues Bar, Frankies, Stamps, Corkscrew, Hampsons and Suburb 24. In recent years Crosby has featured in The Sunday Times "Best Places to Live" list. Crosby is also home to Rossett Park Stadium home of Marine A.F.C. who play their football in the Northern Premier League Premier Division . It has
1037-508: The Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam." In early 1955, Lewis warned Culshaw that he had heard rumours that Capitol was on the point of severing its ties with Decca. Within days it was announced that Capitol had been taken over by EMI. Capitol sessions already booked were completed, including two records of Jacques Ibert conducting his own works, but EMI made it clear that it would put an end to Capitol's classical activity, which
1098-568: The Decca recording company in November 1946, writing musical analyses and biographies of recording artists for Decca's classical albums. His first book, a short biography of Rachmaninov, was published in 1949 and was well received. The critic of The Times praised it for its discriminating judgment, conciseness and discretion. It was followed by two further books; a popular introduction to concertos ( The Concerto in "The World of Music" series in 1949), and
1159-549: The Metropolitan Borough of Sefton , Merseyside , England . Historically in Lancashire , it is north of Bootle , south of Southport and Formby , and west of Netherton . It abuts the areas of Blundellsands to the north and Waterloo to the south. It is approximately 6 miles (9.6 km) north of Liverpool City Centre . The town has Viking roots in common with the other -by suffixed settlements of Formby to
1220-595: The University of Melbourne . He also took on the responsibility for the annual United Nations concert in New York, and acted as a music consultant to the Australian Broadcasting Commission . He frequently served as a commentator for broadcasts of Metropolitan Opera performances, and his 1976 book, Reflections on Wagner's "Ring" , was based on the series of interval talks he gave during the broadcasts of
1281-540: The Victoria ward , covers Great Crosby and North Waterloo, and is represented by three councillors. They are now all Labour Party councillors Michael Roche, Leslie Byrom CBE FRCIS, and Jan Grace. Crosby, Merseyside is twinned with Capri , Italy. Crosby as an area was composed of a string of settlements along the Irish Sea coast. These areas were part of the urban districts of Great Crosby and Waterloo with Seaforth and
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#17330859299631342-716: The long-playing record (LP), he produced the first LP versions of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company . In 1951, Culshaw and one of Decca's senior engineers, Kenneth Wilkinson , were sent to the Bayreuth Festival to record Wagner's Parsifal . For Culshaw, Wagner was an abiding passion, and he persuaded Decca and the Bayreuth management to let him record that year's Ring cycle in addition to Parsifal . The Ring recording could not be released, probably for contractual reasons. The Parsifal recording, on
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1464-663: The 31.0% for the Sefton borough. Independent schools in the area include Merchant Taylors' Boys School , Merchant Taylors' Girls' School , St Mary's College and Streatham Arts School. There are also several comprehensive schools , including Chesterfield High School , Holy Family Catholic High School , St. Michael's Church of England High School (formerly Manor High Secondary School) and Sacred Heart Catholic College (formerly Sacred Heart Catholic High School, formerly Seafield Grammar School). Primary schools include Forefield Junior school Great Crosby Catholic school Crosby Beach
1525-465: The BBC and worked freelance as a record and stage producer, writer and broadcaster. He was invited to serve on the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1975 and was chairman of its music panel from 1975 to 1977. In 1977 he became a senior fellow in the creative arts at the University of Western Australia , and was visiting professor at the University of Houston , the University of Southern California and
1586-695: The Met's Ring cycle in 1975. Culshaw died in London in 1980, at the age of 55, from a rare form of hepatitis . He was unmarried. His unfinished autobiography, Putting the Record Straight , was published after his death. Among the honours given to Culshaw, The Times listed "eight Grands Prix des Disques, numerous Grammys and in 1966 an OBE ", and the Vienna Philharmonic's Nicolai Medal in 1959 and its Schalk Medal in 1967. A lesser-known part of Culshaw's work
1647-513: The Municipal Borough of Crosby before it too was abolished and became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton . These areas are: At the 2001 UK census , Crosby had a population of 51,789. The 2001 population density was 12,502 inhabitants per square mile (4,827/km ), with a 100 to 89.2 female-to-male ratio. Of those over 16 years old, 31.2% were single (never married), 43.2% married and 8.2% divorced. The proportion of divorced people
1708-491: The action in the listener's head. Culshaw took unprecedented pains to meet Wagner's musical requirements. Where in Das Rheingold the score calls for eighteen anvils to be hammered during two brief orchestral interludes – an instruction never followed in opera houses – Culshaw arranged for eighteen anvils to be hired and hammered. Similarly, where Wagner called for steerhorns , Culshaw arranged for them to be used instead of
1769-480: The age of 22, first writing album liner notes and then becoming a producer. After a brief period working for Capitol Records , Culshaw returned to Decca in 1955 and began planning to record the Ring cycle, employing the new stereophonic technique to produce recordings of unprecedented realism and impact. He disliked live recordings from opera houses, and sought to put on disc specially made studio recordings that would bring
1830-517: The areas of Great Crosby , Waterloo and Seaforth , being absorbed into the expanded Bootle constituency , represented by the Labour MP Peter Dowd , and the two electoral wards of northern Crosby, Blundellsands and Manor, which contains residential suburban areas such as, Blundellsands , Brighton-Le-Sands , Little Crosby , Thornton , and Hightown , forming part of the new Sefton Central constituency represented by Bill Esterson , also
1891-418: The basic reason that it did not seem that we were trying to make records or video tapes; we were just trying to make music." Culshaw thought of all his recordings, that of Britten's War Requiem was the finest. Greenfield says of it, "another recording which confounded the record world not just by its technical brilliance but by the way it sold in huge quantities." The recording was made in London in 1963,
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1952-494: The catalogues five decades later. The opera sets include Tosca , Carmen , Aida , Die Fledermaus and Otello ; among the orchestral sets were Holst 's The Planets and several Richard Strauss works including the then rarely heard Also sprach Zarathustra . In the late 1950s Decca entered into a commercial partnership with RCA , by which Decca teams recorded classical works in European venues on RCA's behalf. Among
2013-505: The dozen and – quite rightly – they came back by the dozen." After many rejections, his first substantial article to be accepted for publication was a piece on Sergei Rachmaninoff , for The Gramophone , published in March 1945. This led to invitations to broadcast musical talks for the BBC and to contribute articles to classical music magazines. After demobilisation from the forces, Culshaw joined
2074-485: The expense involved in taking his major works to the studio did not seem to be justified by the sales potential. But after the Lohengrin experience I found myself fervently hoping that I would never return to Bayreuth, at least in a recording capacity. From 1953 to 1955 Culshaw headed the European programme for Capitol Records . As Capitol at that time had commercial ties with Decca, Culshaw's move did not estrange him from
2135-494: The first of many New Year's Day concerts by the Vienna Philharmonic and Willi Boskovsky . By 1958 Decca, with its pre-eminent technical team ( The Times called them "Decca's incomparable engineers") was in a position to embark on a complete studio recording of Wagner's Ring cycle. Decca decided to begin its cycle with Das Rheingold , the shortest of the four Ring operas. It was recorded in 1958 and released in
2196-618: The go-ahead. Culshaw, who was then responsible for recordings in Vienna, was unavailable to produce that pioneering recording, which was also the first modern opera to be recorded in stereo: instead, he "planned it down to the last detail", and passed his detailed instructions to Erik Smith , who produced the recording. Among the works Culshaw himself recorded with Britten were the operas Albert Herring (1964), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1967), and Billy Budd (1968). Culshaw wrote, "The happiest hours I have spent in any studio were with Ben, for
2257-511: The growth of Crosby as a suburb of Liverpool . Crosby formed part of the Crosby parliamentary constituency from 1950 until 2010. The Member of Parliament (MP) for Crosby from 1997 until 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas , a member of the Labour Party ; prior to her election the seat was generally considered to be a safe Conservative Party stronghold with Tory MPs elected at every election barring
2318-524: The head of Decca, Edward Lewis , who generally took a dim view when his employees left Decca to join its competitors. Culshaw found his attempts to build up a roster of classical artists for Capitol frustrated by bureaucracy at the company's headquarters in Los Angeles. He was prevented from encouraging the soprano Kirsten Flagstad to emerge from retirement, or from signing the conductor Otto Klemperer . The latter misjudgment, as Culshaw noted in his memoirs,
2379-598: The north and Kirkby to the east. Crosby was known as Krossabyr in Old Norse , meaning "village with the cross". The settlement was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Crosebi , and by the year 1212 had become Crosseby . Local people are known as Crosbeians and were referred to as such in the local press but the term is little used today. The opening of the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway in 1848 resulted in
2440-453: The operas fully to life in the listener's mind. In addition to his Wagner recordings, he supervised a series of recordings of the works of Benjamin Britten , with the composer as conductor or pianist, and recordings of operas by Verdi , Richard Strauss and others. Culshaw left Decca in 1967 and was appointed head of music programmes for BBC Television , where he remained until 1975, employing
2501-562: The orchestra wrote, "More British people heard the LSO play in Music Night in one week than in sixty-five years of LSO concerts." Culshaw also screened more formal concerts, including Klemperer's 1970 Beethoven symphony cycle from the Royal Festival Hall . In 1973 he organised for BBC television to broadcast a complete performance of Wagner's Siegfried conducted by Reginald Goodall , but
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2562-415: The other hand, was released to great acclaim in 1952. The Decca team returned to Bayreuth to record the 1953 performances of Lohengrin . The resultant recording was well reviewed, but Culshaw wrote of it: … the cast was only of moderate ability, and we had access to far too few performances to make up anything really worth while. It was still felt that this was the only economic way to record Wagner, for
2623-484: The poll. Culshaw produced a series of Decca recordings of Britten 's music with the composer as conductor or pianist. The Times described them as "a priceless heritage for posterity." Culshaw persuaded Decca to make the first complete recording of Peter Grimes , arguing that unless they did so they should abandon their exclusive agreement with the composer and so "give him a chance to try his luck with other companies". Decca, unwilling to lose out to competition, gave
2684-808: The project never happened. In 1974 Verdi's Un ballo in maschera was broadcast from Covent Garden . Culshaw also set up BBC studio productions of The Marriage of Figaro , The Yeomen of the Guard , The Flying Dutchman and La traviata . Culshaw commissioned Britten's opera Owen Wingrave , written expressly for television. He also persuaded Britten to conduct television productions of Peter Grimes and Mozart's Idomeneo , and to accompany Pears in Schubert's Winterreise . Britten and Pears invited him to Snape , not far from their base at Aldeburgh in Suffolk and he encouraged them to transform Snape Maltings into
2745-525: The recordings supervised by Culshaw for RCA were Sir Thomas Beecham 's lavishly re-orchestrated version of Handel 's Messiah . Other artists with whom he worked for Decca and RCA included pianists such as Wilhelm Backhaus , Arthur Rubinstein and Julius Katchen ; conductors including Karl Böhm , Sir Adrian Boult , Pierre Monteux , Fritz Reiner , and George Szell ; and singers such as Carlo Bergonzi , Jussi Björling , Lisa Della Casa , Leontyne Price , and Renata Tebaldi . By 1967 Culshaw wished for
2806-761: The set outsold popular music releases such as those of Elvis Presley and Pat Boone . The cast included Flagstad in one of her last recorded performances, in the role of Fricka, which she had never sung on stage. Culshaw hoped to record her as Fricka in Die Walküre and Waltraute in Götterdämmerung , but her health did not permit it. His cast for the remaining three Ring operas included Birgit Nilsson , Hans Hotter , Gottlob Frick , Wolfgang Windgassen , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Régine Crespin , with even minor roles sung by such stars as Joan Sutherland . In these productions Culshaw put into practice his belief that
2867-421: The spring of 1959. Culshaw engaged Solti, the Vienna Philharmonic and a cast of established Wagner singers. The performance won enthusiastic praise from reviewers, and the engineers were generally acknowledged to have surpassed themselves. The Gramophone described the recording quality as "stupendous" and called the set "wonderful … surpass[ing] anything done before." To the astonishment and envy of Decca's rivals
2928-675: The staff of the Midland Bank as a clerk, working at a branch in Liverpool . He had little aptitude or liking for banking, failing to pass the company's examination in banking theory, and in 1941 he volunteered to join the Fleet Air Arm as soon as he reached the minimum recruitment age in May 1942. He trained as a navigator, was commissioned as an officer, and promoted to lieutenant as a radar instructor. What spare time he had, he devoted to his passionate interest in music. Apart from piano lessons as
2989-575: The theatre. Siegfried's voice made to sound like Gunther's, the voice of Fafner from his cave, not to mention the splendour of anvils and rainbow bridge harps in Rheingold, all transcend what is heard in the opera-house. In 1967, after the Decca Ring was complete, Culshaw wrote a memoir, Ring Resounding , about the making of the recording. In 1999, Gramophone ran a poll of its readers to find "the ten greatest recordings ever made." The Decca Ring topped
3050-545: The town to Liverpool, Southport and Preston. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North West and ITV Granada . The local television station TalkLiverpool also broadcasts to the area. Television signals are received from the Winter Hill TV transmitter. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Merseyside , Heart North West , Capital Liverpool , Hits Radio Liverpool , Smooth North West and Greatest Hits Radio Liverpool & The North West . The town
3111-458: The trombones habitually substituted at Bayreuth and other opera houses. In The Gramophone , Edward Greenfield wrote: It was thanks to Culshaw's devotion to Wagnerian intentions – ever encouraged by the engineer who was at his right hand through the whole project, Gordon Parry, himself a devoted Wagnerian – that in the Solti Ring cycle one is able to hear the scores in a way literally impossible in
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#17330859299633172-507: The widest audience." Culshaw was born in Southport , Lancashire, one of at least two children of Percy Ellis Culshaw, a bank inspector, and his first wife, Dorothy née Royds. He was educated first at Merchant Taylors' School , Crosby , which he despised for its snobbery and its sports-obsessed philistinism. His father then sent him to King George V Grammar School , Southport. When he left school in 1940, aged 16, he followed his father into
3233-456: The year after the premiere of the Requiem at the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral . For the recording Culshaw managed to assemble the three singers whom Britten had in mind when writing the work, uniting Russian, German and English soloists to represent the former enemy nations – Galina Vishnevskaya , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Peter Pears . One composer Culshaw had nothing to do with
3294-410: Was Mahler . He had a strong aversion to Mahler's music, writing that it made him feel sick: "not metaphorically but physically sick. I find his strainings and heavings, juxtaposed with what always sounds (to me) like faux-naif music of the most calculated type, downright repulsive". Culshaw produced many of the conductor Herbert von Karajan 's best-known operatic and orchestral sets, which remain in
3355-537: Was above that of Sefton and England (both 6.6%), and the incidences of those who were single and married differed significantly from the national and Sefton averages (Sefton: 43.1% single, 35.5% married; England: 44.3% single, 34.7% married). Sefton's 21,250 households included 32.7% one-person, 35.7% married couples living together, 6.6% were co-habiting couples, and 11.3% single parents with their children. Of those aged 16–74, 28.1% had no academic qualifications , similar to 28.9% in all of England and slightly lower than
3416-408: Was conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch with Flagstad in the role of Sieglinde; in the other set the "Todesverkundigung" scene from Act 2 and the whole of Act 3 were conducted by Solti with Flagstad as Brünnhilde. In those early years of stereo, Culshaw worked with Pierre Monteux in recordings of Stravinsky and Ravel , and with Solti in a recording of Richard Strauss 's Arabella . He also recorded
3477-635: Was not repeated by Walter Legge of EMI , who signed Klemperer up with great artistic and commercial success. Capitol further frustrated Culshaw by ignoring the impending introduction of stereophony which the major companies were working on. Among the recordings Culshaw was able to make for Capitol were a Brahms Requiem conducted by Solti in Frankfurt , and what Peter Martland in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls "a series of remarkable recordings of performances by Eduard van Beinum and
3538-492: Was published in 1951. Culshaw's musical books were: Sergei Rachmaninov , 1948; The Concerto , 1949; A Century of Music , 1951; Ring Resounding: The Recording of Der Ring des Nibelungen , 1967; Reflections on Wagner's "Ring", 1976; Wagner: The Man and His Music , 1978; and Putting the Record Straight: The Autobiography of John Culshaw , 1981. Crosby, Merseyside Crosby is a coastal town in
3599-451: Was regarded as superfluous. Lewis invited Culshaw to rejoin Decca, which he did in the autumn of 1955. Finding on his return to Decca that other recording producers were capably filling his former role, Culshaw concentrated on the emerging stereophonic recording technology, and stereo opera in particular. A year after his return he was made manager of the company's classical recording division,
3660-420: Was something to appreciate over a longer span. … [H]e transformed the whole concept of recording." Culshaw hoped to record Die Walküre with Flagstad, whom he persuaded out of retirement, as Brünnhilde. Flagstad, however, was over sixty, and would not agree to sing the whole opera. To capture as much of her Wagner as she was willing to record, Culshaw produced separate sets of parts of the opera in 1957. Act 1
3721-463: Was writing fiction. He published two novels in the early 1950s; the first, The Sons of Brutus (1950) had been inspired by what he had seen during trips to ruined German cities in the aftermath of the war. It was chosen by The Observer as one of its books of the year in 1950. At the time of its publication he was working on a second novel. He gave it the title A Harder Thing , but was persuaded by his publisher to change it to A Place of Stone. It
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