Pineapple Poll V 3 1951 MacKerras

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"Pineapple Poll V 3 1951 MacKerras" is a MIDI music piece in Classical Music style, which is played by an ensemble of 2 instruments including Acoustic Grand Piano, and Pizzicato Strings.

The total duration of this midi music is 17 minutes and 29 seconds, with a total of 14,075 notes, divided into 100 tracks, the initial tempo is 115bpm, the min tempo is 18bpm, the max tempo is 250bpm.

There are multiple keys marked in the file, such as G major、E♭ major、D major、B♭ major、A♭ major etc., marked beats are 2/4、6/8、3/4、1/4、4/4.

Some MIDI events such as Channel Volume Control, Pan are used.

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Standard Midi File Properties

Standard
GM1
File format
MIDI TYPE 1
File size
92.04 KB
Duration
17:29
BPM
18 - 250
Tracks
5
Pineapple Poll V 3 1951 MacKerras.mid MIDI download

Channels and Instruments

Used 5 channels, 2 instruments

1

Acoustic Grand Piano

3,721 notes/chords，avg. pitch F#5

Program ID: 0, Track: 1

time: 00:01 - 17:18

pitch: G3 - D7
2

Acoustic Grand Piano

2,362 notes/chords，avg. pitch C5

Program ID: 0, Track: 2

time: 00:01 - 17:18

pitch: D#3 - E6
3

Acoustic Grand Piano

1,727 notes/chords，avg. pitch D#4

Program ID: 0, Track: 3

time: 00:18 - 17:18

pitch: D#3 - C6
4

Acoustic Grand Piano

2,772 notes/chords，avg. pitch D#3

Program ID: 0, Track: 4

time: 00:01 - 17:18

pitch: A#0 - G4
6

Pizzicato Strings

1,491 notes/chords，avg. pitch F#1

Program ID: 45, Track: 5

time: 00:01 - 17:18

pitch: C1 - C#2

Tracks

100 tracks are used, 5 tracks have notes

#	Name	Channel(s)	Instrument(s)
1	piano 1	1	Acoustic Grand Piano
2	piano 2	2	Acoustic Grand Piano
3	piano 3	3	Acoustic Grand Piano
4	piano 4	4	Acoustic Grand Piano
5	pizz str bass	6	Pizzicato Strings
6	*
7	Pineapple Poll Vs3 1951 MacKerras
8	Based on the Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
9	arranged for piano solo by Sir Charles MacKerras
10	ｩ MCMLI by Chappell & Co. Ltd.
11	*
12	sequence by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
13	on Monday 05 April 2004 at 16.20
14	in association with Doug Grierson
15	*
16	In 1950, the copyright on Sullivan's music expired. Gilbert's words
17	would still enjoy another eleven years of protection, but the music
18	was now fair game. One of the first to exploit it was Sadler's
19	Wells, who mounted a ballet called Pineapple Poll based on Gilbert's
20	Bab Ballad 'The Bumboat Woman's Story' and set exclusively to music
21	by Sullivan, arranged by a young Charles Mackerras. The ballet
22	premiered in March, 1951, to coincide with the Festival of Britain.
23	It caused an immediate sensation and remained in the Sadler's Wells
24	repertoire for years to come.
25	*
26	For those unfamiliar with Pineapple Poll, it is essentially a short
27	dance production based on a story by Gilbert and on music by
28	Sullivan. Sir Charles Mackerras wrote a delightful ballet consisting
29	of the music from most of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas (plus Cox &
30	Box and Overture Di Ballo). The music is eminently 'danceable' and
31	not only are his segues seamless (the music from the various operas
32	are all mixed together), but the music (and even many of the
33	original lyrics) exactly fit the plot of the ballet. Just listening
34	to the music of Pineapple Poll is like a trivia quiz for G&S fans.
35	*
36	Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras is best known in Gilbert & Sullivan
37	circles as the arranger of the ballet Pineapple Poll. It was
38	Mackerras's idea to create a ballet from the music of the Savoy
39	operas, and as the expiration of the copyright on Sullivan's music
40	approached at the end of 1950, he discussed the idea with Peggy van
41	Praagh of Sadler's Wells Ballet. Miss van Praagh was intrigued,
42	thought such a ballet would make a good item for the 1951 Festival
43	of Britain program, and recommended South African choreographer John
44	Cranko as collaborator. Cranko suggested Gilbert's Bab Ballad 'The
45	Bumboat Woman's Story' as a suitable story line, and the resulting
46	ballet, Pineapple Poll, first performed March 13, 1951, has been in
47	the Sadler's Wells repertoire ever since. It has been frequently
48	recorded, usually with Mackerras conducting.
49	*
50	Born in 1925 of Australian parents in the United States, Sir Charles
51	Mackerras studied in Sydney and Prague and made his debut as an
52	opera conductor at Sadler's Wells. He was First Conductor of the
53	Hamburg Opera (1966-69) and Musical Director of both Sadler's Wells
54	(later the English National) Opera (1970-87) and of Welsh National
55	Opera (1987-92), where his notable Janacek productions - among many
56	others - won great acclaim.
57	*
58	Mackerras, was taken to Sydney, Australia, as an infant. He studied
59	oboe, piano, and composition at the New South Wales State
60	Conservatorium of Music. Then he was principal oboist in the Sydney
61	Symphony Orchestra (1943-1946). Subsequently he went to London,
62	where he joined the orchestra at Sadler's Wells and studied
63	conducting with Michael Mudie. He won a British Council Scholarship
64	in 1947, which enabled him to study conducting with Vaclav Talich at
65	the Prague Academy of Music.
66	*
67	Returning to London in 1948, he was an assistant conductor at
68	Sadler's Wells until 1953. Then he was engaged as principal
69	conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra (1954-1956). Subsequently he
70	appeared as a guest conductor with British orchestras, and also had
71	engagements on the Continent. In 1963 he made his debut at London's
72	Covent Garden conducting Shostakovich's Katerina Izmailova. From
73	1966 to 1970 he held the post of 1st conductor at the Hamburg State
74	Opera. In 1970 he became music director at the Sadler's Wells Opera
75	(renamed the English National Opera in 1974), a position he held
76	until 1978. In October 1972 he made his Metropolitan Opera debut in
77	New York conducting Gluck's Orfeo et Euridice. From 1976 to 1979 he
78	was chief guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London.
79	After serving as chief conductor of the Sydney (Australia) Symphony
80	Orchestra (1982-1985), he was artistic director of the Welsh
81	National Opera in Cardiff (1987-1992). He was principal guest
82	conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Glasgow (from 1992).
83	In February 1993, Sir Charles was appointed Principal Guest
84	Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and later
85	conducted its first professional performance in the UK of the
86	'original version' of Glagolitic Mass with the Brighton Festival
87	Chorus at the Royal Festival Hall. In 1993 he was also appointed
88	Principal Guest Conductor of the San Francisco Opera.
89	*
90	Mackerras received a CBE in 1974 and was knighted for his services
91	to music in 1979. At the end of 1996 he received The Medal of Merit
92	from the Czech Republic, and recently he was made a Companion of the
93	Order of Australia. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from the
94	Universities of Hull, York, Nottingham, Brno, Griffith (in Brisbane,
95	Australia) and finally Oxford (1997). Mackerras celebrated his
96	seventieth birthday in 1995 with gala concerts with the Scottish
97	Chamber Orchestra in Edinburgh, the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff
98	and with the San Francisco Opera.
99	*