Thijs van Leer - Grand Gala 1974 Full concert live TopPop
Thijs van Leer (Amsterdam, March 31, 1948) is a Dutch flautist and keyboard player. Together with the guitarist Jan Akkerman, he is best known as member of the band Focus.
Van Leer also made solo albums as a flautist, on which he played his own compositions in addition to arrangements of classical pieces, with background vocals by Letty de Jong and arrangements by Rogier van Otterloo. These albums appeared under the title Introspection, Introspection 2 and Introspection 3.
This performance of Thijs van Leer and Letty de Jong was recorded and broadcast at the Grand Gala Du Disque 1974 by AVRO Television in the Netherlands, 15 February 1974, RAI Congress Centre, Amsterdam, and accompanied by the Metropole Orchestra under direction of Rogier van Otterloo
Two compositions are played: ’Rondo’ and ’Pavane’.
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TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years.
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