Gentle Readers, a few months I featured a new book, The Pump Room Orchestra: Three Centuries of Music and Social History, by Robert Hyman and Nicola Hyman, which you can order from Amazon.com. Recently BBC Radio 3 came to the Pump Room to do an interview with the Pump Room Trio. The review/feature will be on ‘Music Matters’ which starts at 12.15 pm on Saturday, December 10th. Nicola sent me a few images from the event. I do hope you will tune in on Saturday to listen to the interview! Meanwhile, enjoy these images.
The Pump Room Trio
Here’s the link to listen to the 12 minute program on Saturday! Fabulous.
Robert and Nicola Hyman
The gathering in the Pump Room. Note the breathtaking chandelier and the marble statue of Beau Nash carved by Joseph Plura that sits in an alcove above the clock.
Bath Minuet Company
Ah, such a lovely place to enjoy the music. Thanks for the post and the link!
Thank you for that lovely addition – the sculptor of Beau Nash’s statue in the alcove to the east apse of the Pump Room. Note also the Tompion clock donated to the City of Bath in 1709. The son of one of the trumpet players from the pre-war Pump Room Orchestra, Joseph Bossi (who clocked up 50 years with the Orchestra) became a horologist and had the honour of maintaining this wonderful clock. The clock serves as a timepiece to the history of the Pump Room and the music. This is one of the many anecdotes discovered in our five years of research into the Pump Room Orchestra, to be enjoyed in the book.
I can hardly wait to listen to what must be wonderful musicianship!
Thank you again for another stellar article!
Rose
Oh how I would love to dance with the Bath Minuet company.
I’m so glad that I was able to visit The Pump Room 2 summers ago. It looked lovely and brought back happy memories for me!