My folks had a lot of Mantovani albums when I began growing up, so I
heard his music all the time. Maybe that's why I like Pinder's
Mellotron arrangements. Don't know anything about his cascading
strings though. I've been watching some of his clips on Youtube and
interestingly (or not), it was mentioned in a comment that he
wrote "Cara Mia" under a pseudonym.
Bernie
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newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "tomdcour" <tomdcour@...>
wrote:
>
> Recently ,in an interview, Mike Pinder expressed that Mantovani had
been an influence on his
> mellotron work. Vaguely remembering some haunting strains of "Love
is a Many Splendored
> Thing" I went on Google to find out more. The first site I visited
had a clip of the music that
> Nurse Ratchet played to calm down the patients in 'One Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest". This
> put me in a bad frame of mind to be open to Mr. Mantovani. Indeed I
started to suspect that
> he was responsible for the Musak I had to listen to in the 60's and
70's while my mom was
> shopping in the lingerie department. Bad associations! Then I began
to read about some of
> his unique studio methods. "Cascading Strings"!! Listening back to
the clip, I was no longer
> sure if I was hearing an orchestra drenched in a lot of reverb or
the string section doing
> something weird. I am wondering if ,perhaps, he had a rank of
violins playing the melody and
> another picking it up at a lower volume followed by yet another and
another- simulating
> reverb. The effect, if you can bear to listen to it, is very
interesting. Anyone know anything
> more about cascading strings or Mr. Mantovani?
>