Author: lsssecretary
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Ballet Negres Anniversary
80 years ago on Monday June 24th, Ballet Negres, Europe’s first Black ballet company, performed live on BBC Television. This ground-breaking and innovative company was formed in London in 1946 by Jamaicans Berto Pasuka and Richie Riley, with dancers from the Caribbean, Africa and Britain. There were some non-black members of the company including my…
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Leonard Salzedo caprices and variations
Eleven Caprices for Two Violins The video of violinists Ryo Koyama and Maho Harada playing Leonard Salzedo’s Eleven Caprices for Two Violins is now live on YouTube and also features on the Leonard Salzedo website and and on Leonard Salzedo Society’s Instagram It is a wonderful piece, written in 1951, showcasing many different styles, and…
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Leonard Salzedo 24/9/21 – 6/5/00
On this, the 26th anniversary of my father Leonard Salzedo’s death, I am again celebrating friendship. As I said in the New Year post, along with the quality of my father’s music, it is friendship that keeps the Leonard Salzedo Society going. For more information, you can go to this website which includes a catalogue…
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Happy New Year from the Leonard Salzedo Society: a post that celebrates friendship
It is friendship that keeps the Leonard Salzedo Society together. This heartening thought came to me as I looked around the Society AGM in November. A network of friends in Nottingham, a wider network of friends in other parts of the country, and last but not least, cousins on both sides of the family who…
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Leonard Salzedo Birthday Stories
Celebrating 24th September – the birthday of my father Leonard Salzedo – with some stories from his autobiography: “At eleven o’clock on the morning of Saturday 24th September 1921 I was born at a small private nursing home at 46 Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, in North London. It was a large Victorian House and has…
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The Wedding of Leonard Salzedo and Pat Clover: 30th May 1945
From Leonard’s autobiography ‘At 3pm on the afternoon of Wednesday 30th May, Patricia Mary Clover and I were married at the Register Office in Hackney Town Hall, almost exactly twenty-five years after my parents had been married in the same place. After the ceremony we returned to Stamford Hill, where I lived with my father,…
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Leonard Salzedo 1921-2000
24 September 1921 to 6 May 2000 Composer of over 150 works from his 20s when a student at the Royal College of Music into his final years. Since his death, concerts & recordings have continued. The Leonard Salzedo Society has more planned for this and future years. YouTube See the film about him Leonard Salzedo…
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Leonard Salzedo and the Nutcracker
My father Leonard Salzedo was a student at Royal College of Music (RCM) in the 1940s and I was delighted to watch this 2024 RCM Christmas video with highlights of the Nutcracker arranged by and for RCM students, because both the RCM Concert Hall and the Nutcracker had a particular significance for my father. The…
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103 years!
24th September 2024 is 103 years since my father Leonard Salzedo was born. His music is still being played! And the Leonard Salzedo Society is constantly promoting new ventures and celebrating old ones. Harpsichord Concerto Here is a video of the June 2024 Palo Alto concert of Leonard’s Harpsichord Concerto played by my cousin Jonathan…
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Two Concerti performed in June
Fantastic! That’s how I felt about the concerts of Salzedo music I attended in June. Viola Concerto in Greenwich Richard Crabtree, violist, and Irina Lyakhovskaya, pianist, played the Viola Concerto in the stunning venue of the Old Royal Chapel, Greenwich. Richard, for whom the Concerto was written, is a longtime friend and supporter of Leonard…
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