This evening we saw the last performance of Tubular Bells For Two for this #FringeWorld . It was amazing, so have a read of Alicia Smith's review - which is likewise amazing. Originally shared by Alicia Smith Do you know the album by Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells? Revolutionary for the time, the young musical prodigy created an amazing work - and I remember my music teacher in 1978 playing us the bit that everyone knows, or should know and telling us this was an important piece of music. You know, where the instruments are named and then played with the recurring theme. Of course bits of the album were used in the Exorcist and the London Olympics and so forth. I heard the whole album, both sides, and on vinyl and cd. I play it quite often and its successor albums, dvds, other works by Oldfield. And always under the impression that if played live you need a lot of people, and possibly a pipe band for some of the later pieces. How wrong I was. When I heard that Tubular Bells for T...
