LEONARD SALZEDO SOCIETY

My father Leonard Salzedo was a prolific and gifted composer. Click here for the film A Life Composed in Music. In 2022 there was a Centenary plus one Celebration concert of his work organised by the Leonard Salzedo Society. See the Concert page

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A chance meeting around Easter changes two lives forever

Leonard writes: “One Saturday afternoon in March 1945 I received a telephone call from a Basil Ashmore who asked me to come and see him later that afternoon at the Gateway Theatre, Notting Hill Gate.  When I arrived the young lady I met didn’t seem very pleased to see me but said she would call…

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Christmas 2023

Looking for Christmas memories in my father’s autobiography, I am struck not by the happier ones but by the wartime ones with their mixture of horror and hope. 1944 – Flying Bombs In September 1944, the V2s began to hit London. Called Flying Bombs, they were long range ballistic missiles. On a terrifying night, Leonard…

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Anniversary Post

Leonard Salzedo 24th September 1921 – 6th May 2000 A year since the Leonard Salzedo Celebration concert in London organised by the Leonard Salzedo Society on the 101st anniversary of Leonard’s birth. Two years since the launch of the film on YouTube Leonard Salzedo A Life Composed in Music for the Centenary of this birth.…

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Leonard gets a medal!

#OTD 80 years ago 22 July 1943, in the main hall of the Royal College of Music 21-year-old Leonard Salzedo received the Tagore Gold Medal for outstanding student of the year from the then Princess Elizabeth, aged 17. The Queen was there to see her daughter in her first public engagement. Official Photo of the presentation…

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