Is the score for Jon Lords Concerto For Group And Orchestra available?
For the longest time, the answer to this question was no — soon after the inaugural performances of the piece (the premiere at London’s Royal Albert Hall, and a followup concert at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl), the score was lost. It wasn’t until nearly 30 years later that an enterprising Dutch music student, Marco de Goeij, who had spent two years armed with the recording and video appeared with a reconstituted score and presented it to Jon Lord for comment and corrections. Together with Paul Mann, the three of them tinkered and prodded until the Concerto score was deemed ready for public consumption again. This occurred nearly 30 years to the day in the same venue, the Royal Albert Hall, as part of two concerts put on for the Nordoff Robbins charities. Numerous performances on the subsequent tour helped point out minor revisons that were needed, resulting in the score we have today. Although it isn’t yet published in folio form, Paul Mann has told us that All the material for the co
