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JOHN MARCHINGTON

Born 1938

I am sure you will enjoy this music from this talented composer.

Please note John's work is copyrighted, and is for personal downloading only, please ask permission of the composer
before  any other  use.  His old email is  no longer valid,  I last heard  from him in  1999 but you may  find him  with a
google search.

I'm sixty years of age and was born in Australia in March, 1938, but have lived in New Zealand since I was eight years
old, and I currently  reside in Lower Hutt,  which is a city about 10 miles  north of our capital, Wellington.  I 'retired' in
May 1996 after the English-based firm I had worked for for thirty-six years closed their electronic section down (I was
an engineer involved in the manufacture of variable-speed AC drives at the end)and I was made redundant.   I became
interested in popular  music when still a child.  My introduction to serious (as I tend to call it)  music came about in my
early teens when  I was introduced to some  of those early  Decca FFRR LPs (such as the  Erich Kleiber/Concertgebouw
great performances of the Beethoven  5th & 6th symphonies which I still have high  opinions about) and the Toscanini
Brahms 1st  (a performance I still regard as  the standard by which  others are judged).  I have them all  on CD now.  I
quickly moved on to Stravinsky's 'Petrushka' (Ernest Ansermet's early mono Decca recording with the Suisse Romande
Orchestra) and  the Vaughan Williams  'Sinfonia Antartica' with Sir Adrian Boult and the LPO (also Decca mono).  I'm a
real VW devotee now, as indeed I am with most English music.

My musical tastes  are now extremely wide (for example,  I have just  purchased a 2-CD set of the complete Schnittke
string quartets with the Kronos Quartet,  and recently I purchased the  complete works of Edgar[d]  Varèse on Decca)
and cover music  of almost all types such as techno,  drum and bass  (I don't tend  to listen to much straight pop now)
groups such as Genesis, Pink Floyd and Yes, also very wide range of serious music from Abbess Hildegard[e] of Bingen
through to John Tavener etc.  I'm particularly fond of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner having multiple recordings of
all of them, while on a different wavelength I'm also very fond of the music of Tangerine Dream and have an enormous
number of the band's CDs.

I listen to a great deal of live music too attending all the subscription concerts by our excellent New Zealand Symphony
Orchestra, all the local  Chamber Music concerts ( which including a Sunday series which occurs later in each year)  and
Wellington also holds a Festival of the Arts every two years, and I attend many activities from those each time.

Last Updated on 2020
By Steven Ritchie

And now for the Music

(510)©"John has called this "Patchwork IV". Sequenced and composed by John Marchington.

(476)©"Sweet Melody A simple pleasant piece". Sequenced and composed by John Marchington.

(521)©"Fugal Fun 4, A lovely piece". Sequenced and composed by John Marchington.

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