Blyth Lindsay - Tenor Trombone
Blyth Lindsay plays second Trombone in the Brass Section, joining the Orchestra in 1978.
Q. How long have you been with the RLPO?
A. Since 3 July, 2.15, 1978
Q. What was your earliest musical experience?
A. Hearing Dad & Gran playing piano and trying to pick out tunes myself. And being 5 years old having accordion lessons with my sister, she being older would go first (we all went in a the same time) and as we always practised together we made the same mistakes.
Q. Do you play any other instruments?
A. Euphonium, bass, trumpet, piano, accordion, piano (badly) just for fun
Q. If you could play a different instrument, which one would it be?
A. Tenor Sax. At School we had choices on which instrument to play. Mine were Tenor Sax and Trumpet. When we were chosen to play an instrument all they had was trombone mouthpieces, we didn't see a trombone for 2 wees and when we did, the slide was tied up.
Q. What would you most like to do if you weren’t a musician?
A. Play violin (joke). At School I enjoyed engineering, drawing, so Architecture?
Q. If you could take a recording of one piece of music to a desert island, what would it be?
A. Strauss Four Last Songs, Janowitz - Karajan & Berlin Phil
Q. Which piece of music do you most enjoy playing?
A. Nearly always what we are playing at the time, in general, Richard Strauss, Mahler, Bruckner
Q. Which personality (historical, musical or otherwise – living or dead!) would you most like to share a bottle of wine with?
A. Orson Welles and our Brass Section. I was lucky once to share a few drinks and a game of snooker with Jake Thackray, who said "never try to out anecdote a musician, they will always top you".
Q. Where’s your favourite place to eat/drink in Liverpool?
A. I think that Liverpool is blessed with fantastic restaurants, almost all are great
Q. What do you do to relax in your free time?
A. Ride my Pan European Motorcycle, surf the net, and generally get up to mischief
Q. Where’s your favourite holiday destination?
A. Scotland