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Tom Lehrer. 1928-26th.July, 2025. Precocious mathematician and musical satirist.
His dark humour ruffled quite a few feathers across the English speaking world.
Alfred Brendel, pianist.1931-17th. June 2025. Poet, Painter, composer, essayist and humorist.
A great interpreter of the piano classical repertoire.
Alfred Brendel, 1931-17th.June,2025. Authoritative pianist who performed mostly the classical repertoire.
Poet, essayist, lecturer and humorist.
St. Valentine. 2025. (With apologies to H.W. Longfellow)
‘ I shot an arrow into the air, where it fell I didn’t care.’
Ned Rorem 1923- November 18th, 2022. Prolific composer and Diarist.
a major, much honoured American composer.
Peter Brook. 1925-July2, 2022. Influential theatre director who took drama into spaces around the World.
An unblinking perception of the material world.
Young Etonians, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson perform Romeo and Juliet at one of the school’s two theatres.
The Etonian Tory Government cuts funding for Arts education.
Stephen Sondheim. 1930-November 26, ’21 Composer, lyricist, theatrical wonder.
The stage goes dark.
Eyeless in Gaza
Looking the other way. The Palestine/Israel locked in conflict.
Jane Manning,OBE, 1938-31March 2021.
Hung, Drawn and Cultured 