{"id":1310,"date":"2015-06-30T20:40:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T20:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2015-06-30T21:40:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T21:40:47","slug":"george-harvey-webb-and-the-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/2015\/06\/30\/george-harvey-webb-and-the-hostage\/","title":{"rendered":"George Harvey-Webb and The Hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/Hostage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1299\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/Hostage.jpg\" alt=\"Hostage\" width=\"147\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fiddler George Harvey-Webb, who is the subject of other posts and dedicated pages in this blog, was associated with the stage\u00a0in London. Here, in 1959, we see him playing with\u00a0Theatre Workshop production of Brendan Behan&#8217;s <em>The Hostage<\/em>, directed by Joan Littlewood. This production was highly acclaimed and has been hailed as an influential example of music in popular theatre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/Hostage-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/Hostage-1.jpg\" alt=\"Hostage-1\" width=\"230\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/Hostage-1.jpg 709w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/Hostage-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/Hostage-1-297x300.jpg 297w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/Hostage-1-600x606.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/Hostage-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1302\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/Hostage-2.jpg\" alt=\"Hostage-2\" width=\"232\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/Hostage-2.jpg 709w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/Hostage-2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/Hostage-2-297x300.jpg 297w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/Hostage-2-600x606.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for us the original cast can be heard on a gramophone record of the songs and music from the show. The final track is our fiddle Harvey-Webb playing a lively<strong>\u00a0gig (sic) and reel. <\/strong><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1310-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/The-Hostage.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/The-Hostage.mp3\">http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/06\/The-Hostage.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Jig and Reel<\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether he took some guidance from the great Irish fiddlers he might have heard in London pubs such as The Favourite that were famed for their traditional music around that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiddler George Harvey-Webb, who is the subject of other posts and dedicated pages in this blog, was associated with the stage\u00a0in London. Here, in 1959, we see him playing with\u00a0Theatre Workshop production of Brendan Behan&#8217;s The Hostage, directed by Joan &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/2015\/06\/30\/george-harvey-webb-and-the-hostage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}