A composer with dementia replays his favourite theme
mainFrom the TV composer Nick Harvey:
Dad has dementia. Sometimes he drifts into another world and I feel like I’m losing him. He is never more present, however, than when he plays the piano.
He came to mine today and I asked him to play one of his compositions. He thought he wouldn’t be able to remember it. pic.twitter.com/EQGcXBwB3w
— Nick Harvey (@mrnickharvey) June 23, 2019
Paul Harvey, 79, from Sheffield, is a former member of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Bournemouth Symphony, also playing regularly in the BBC Symphony. He has composed a great deal of music for film and TV. He is ex-vicepresident of the UK clarinet and saxophone society.
Norman, could you check Paul’s dates please – according to the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of GB he was born in 1935 which would make his age 84, not 79 as your article says. I was looking up to see when he was in the SNO, and came across his biog. on the CSSGB’s pages. Thanks
Funny — the almost identical article and identical clip were on the Classic FM site with the same mistake about the age. By ALL accounts he was born in 1935.
Some dictionaries simply don’t contain the word “check.” And some philosophies.
I don’t think they’re the same person. Here’s Paul the clarinetist 4 years ago https://youtu.be/RE0tmiFMqnI
I was in the BSO for 37 years from 1972 and he was never a member of the orchestra during those years.
But maybe he was in the BSO before 1972, https://www.cassgb.org/paul-harvey-vice-president/
I don’t think that this is Paul the clarinettist/saxophonist as shown above and in the video posted by Heini as I have a number of books by him and, according to the biographical details, the 1935 birth date is correct and also they mention a daughter called Paulina but no son.