9 April 2014
INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE: HOW MUSIC
TRANSFORMS LIVES ACROSS THE GLOBE FROM
THE UK TO VENEZUELA AND BEYOND
African-American novelist and political
advisor to Obama’s election campaign
Candace Allen, and the American violinist
Tai Murray talk on the theme of: “Instrument
of change, how music transforms lives
across the globe from the UK to Venezuela
and beyond...”
Candace Allen’s latest book is “Soul
Music, the Pulse of Race and Music” where
she examines the power of music to change
lives, exploring innovative music projects
across the globe from Abreu’s El Sistema
programme in Venezuela to Daniel Barenboim
and Edward Said’s West Eastern Divan
Orchestra which brings together Palestinian,
Israeli and Arab musicians into one orchestra.
Tai Murray is Ambassador of the
UK-based music charity London Music
Masters (www.londonmusicmasters.org),
which enables social change in inner city
primary schools through its innovative music
programme the Bridge Project. Working in
schools across London, pupils in the four
schools where LMM runs the programme,
have shown a marked academic improvement.
With today’s headlines focusing on poor
literacy and numeracy in UK’s school leavers
being the lowest in the developed world,
improving UK’s academic performance is
particularly topical. Tai Murray’s new CD 20th Century American Scene - is released
in November.
21 May 2014
29 April 2014
AN EVENING ON TERENCE RATTIGAN,
WITH PRINCESS GALITZINE
100 DAYS TO VICTORY:
HOW THE GREAT WAR
WAS FOUGHT & WON
Jean Dawnay - www.flickr.com
The great 1950’s Dior fashion model,
Jean Dawnay (Princess George Galitzine)
was a close friend of the playwright,
Sir Terence Rattigan and she was the
hostess at many of the glittering parties
he held. In particular the party for the
opening of the film ‘The Prince and the
Showgirl’. Jean greeted all the guests,
including Marilyn Monroe, who starred in
the picture, her husband Arthur Miller,
Sir Laurence Olivier and his wife Vivien
Leigh as well as Dame Sybil Thorndike,
Margot Fonteyn, John Gielgud, Lady
Diana Cooper and Peggy Ashcroft.
During the first part of the evening
the Princess will be talking about
being the friend, muse and hostess of
Terence Rattigan with his biographer
Geoffrey Wansell. And then Geoffrey
and the playwright Giles Cole will give
a unique insight into the private face
of one of the Twentieth Century’s
greatest playwrights.
Historian Saul David gives a talk on his
recently published book 100 Days to Victory.
100 Days to Victory is a totally original,
utterly engaging account of the Great War –
the first book to tell the story of the ‘war to end
all wars’ through the events of one hundred key
days between 1914 and 1918.
The history of any war is more than a
list of key battles and Saul David shows
vividly how the First World War reached
beyond the battlefield, touching upon
events and lives which shaped the conduct
and outcome of the conflict. Ranging
from the young Adolf Hitler’s reaction
to the assassination of Archduke Franz
Ferdinand, through a Zeppelin raid on
Scarborough, the tragic dramas of Gallipoli
and the battlefields of the Western Front
to the individual bravery
of the first Indian VC,
Saul David brings
people and events
dramatically to life..
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