The Really Terrible Orchestra
The Really Terrible Orchestra (English: really terrible orchestra, in short: RTO) is a British amateur orchestra, which was founded by a native of Edinburgh businessman Peter Stevenson and the author Alexander McCall Smith in 1995. The two were in search of an orchestra for the laity, in which they could participate for the fun of music, but there has been no corresponding. So they started the RTO, with Richard Neville Towle as a conductor.
On the website of the orchestra says:
" The Really Terrible Orchestra exists to Encourage Those who have been Prevented from playing music, Either through lack of talent or some other factor, to play music in the company of similarly afflicted players. The policy of the orchestra is to make no distinction in between the various grades of ability and the various forms of music, or time signature. The RTO looks forward to a Further lowering of standards, in order to underline its commitment to accessibility and relevance. "
" The Really Terrible Orchestra exists to encourage people, which was held by too little talent or other factors either by making music, playing in a community of peers. The principle of the orchestra is to make no distinction between the different highly developed skills and the various forms of music or time signatures. The RTO is looking forward to reduce the level continues to emphasize its commitment to accessibility and meaning. "
Smith brings the low quality of the orchestral playing very directly expressed:
"The name which care fully chosen: what it Said what what you would Born Christened "
" The name was chosen wisely: Drin is what is it."
About the orchestra also includes a German, the Munich -born Felicity Macfie. She joined the orchestra, after visiting his performances.
Every year, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe a concert by the RTO instead. CDs of performances will be in the foyer of the Canongate Kirk, a church in Edinburgh, sold, which also represents the sample space. The orchestra also appeared in Alexander McCall Smith 's novel The Sunday Philosophy Club.
A documentary about the RTO, The Really Terrible Orchestra, under the direction of Edward Brooke- Hitching, was selected for the 60th International Edinburgh Film Festival 2006 where it won the Baillie Gifford Award for Best Scottish Short documentation.
The first concert, which gave the RTO in London, took place at Cadogan Hall on November 3, 2007.
On 1 April 2009 the RTO gave up his first ( one-day ) overseas trip a concert at the Town Hall in New York City.
Reception
In connection with the reporting of the orchestra in the television arts program ttt - titel, theses, temperamente 20 September 2009 it was said on the First Web site: The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: "The " failure can be a wonderful thing. " Really Terrible Orchestra plays always miserable. There love the people, " Christoph Winder noted in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard on ". Usually it behaves in capitalist societies so that anyone who has to offer a commodity, the same praise and praise: The cheapest sausage, the best mackerel fillet, the latest newspaper, the cleanest laundry, the tastiest treats and so on. [ ... ] As much as we are accustomed to this praise and prizes, that it is quite weird, but also kind of refreshing anweht us when we suddenly find [ ... ] of the existence of an orchestra in Edinburgh, which is the lot ( bears or rather little ) promising name, Really Terrible Orchestra ' ( RTO). [ ..] Is not that lovely? If this example made school so it would get us from now with less boastful, but to the more do honest product names " The Hamburg evening paper pointed in a 2007 online report on the website of the orchestra and warned:". Clips at your own risk at www. thereallyterribleorchestra.com. "