The following is a link to the papers of Munrow's father who was a PE teacher who wanted to spread the word of the need for physical, and  mental health via exercise. Also, one of the things that his son David loved doing was rock climbing! However, as a father he naturally feared for his safety but his offspring was absolutely fearless...! https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/5ea5e605-4201-3670-885f-fdfea47fec99 ........The Old Gym is interesting not just for its architecture. Its construction in 1939-41 followed the Physical Training Act of 1937 ..read more

Blogger Ref   https://www.youtube.com/Searle8 The following is a pleasant, and wonderful presentation of some of the recorder work of David Munrow.... http://wwno.org/post/continuum-art-recorder-1 ..read more

Wednesday, 11 February 2015 Genre: Education / Music/Source Curious British Telly Channel: BBC2 Transmission: 17/05/1976 - 14/06/1976 Believe it or not, but there was actually a time when Curious British Telly's life wasn't consumed entirely by archive television. It was merely a passion which would briefly manifest itself when we watched old episodes of Dr Who and tried to remember that children's tv show about the artistic dog. You see, our obsession before this glorious folly was... MUSIC! We'd attend gigs regularly, bought NME every single week for 9 ..read more

Semibrevity is an important blog on the early pioneers of Early Music. See http://www.semibrevity.com/2016/04/nikolaus-harnoncourt-and-gustav-leonhardt-a-musical-friendship-of-more-than-60-years/ Guest Blogger: Peter Dickinson is a composer, writer and pianist and an Emeritus Professor of two universities – Keele and London. See here for more details. ‘My wife and I first met David and Gill Munrow in Cambridge in about 1965. It was summer and we were all in the garden at 54 Bateman Street, the home of Mary Potts, whose late husband was L. J. Potts, the literary critic and English don at Q ..read more

This blog is a close look at the life and work of one of Britain's greatest musicians and broadcasters. The blogger Robert Searle introduces the subject.                                                 .......As a child  in the 1970s I lived at 74 King's Road Windsor and I recall my pater would call out my name when I was upstairs to say that Pied Piper a  BBC radio programme was on. It was concerned with music in general and was originally intended for ch ..read more

A Treasury of Early Music    http://www.youtube.com/Searle8 By Phil Hebblethwaite Monday 28th November 2016/BBC Radio 3 As Radio 3 re-run episodes of their landmark 1970s music series for children, Pied Piper, we remember its presenter - early music specialist David Munrow What's the best way to inspire children to take an interest in music, and is there any value in doing so? If there is, what kind of music is best? Those kinds of questions have dogged parents and scientists for decades, each new study providing different answers. Does listening to Mozart really boost yo ..read more

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia/ There is also a reference to the blogger and also a link ofcourse to this site The Early Music Legend. Jump to navigationJump to search David Munrow Munrow playing a six-holed pipe in 1976 Background information Born 12 August 1942 Origin Birmingham, England, United Kingdom Died 15 May 1976 (aged 33) Chesham Bois, England Genres Early music Occupation(s) Musician, broadcaster Instrument(s) Recorder, shawm, crumhorn, dulcian Years active 10 Labels EMI, Argos, Archiv David John Munrow (12 August ..read more

  After a long period of absence  from Radio 4 for reasons I shall not disclose "by chance" I turned it on...and lo and behold what do I get..a music programme in which Simon Rattle reveals that the reason why he entered the music profession was because of  Pied Piper which was introduced by David Munrow!  Moreover, there was reference to Nicholas Kenyon who helped to "popularise" the latter and his work. Indeed, references to this can be found in the link below.. A wikipedia entry is also included here.  RS/Blogger Google links  Nicholas Kenyon From Wikipedi ..read more

  Ref  Semibrevity British Library Search Google Scholar on David Munrow ..read more

The following comes from  this link The protagonists of the Early Music Revival David John Munrow (Aug. 12 1942 - May 15 1976) did more than anyone else in the second half of the last century to popularise early music in Great Britain, despite a career lasting barely ten years. Munrow has even be regarded as the "inventor" of early music as a new movement per se. Of course, there were other musicians ploughing the same field. But it was David Munrow who helped to popularise it like no other in the 20th century. David Munrow left behind him not only his recordings, but a large coll ..read more