Author: lsssecretary
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And there’s more of John Cromer Braun’s work…
Two of the five Leonard Salzedo songs that mezzo Lotte Betts-Dean is singing at the concert with Ben Costello at the piano, also have words by John Cromer. The Wind at Morning The Wind at Morning was written in Cairo, where John was stationed, in November 1941, as a nostalgic recollection of homeland. In 1969…
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Leonard Salzedo and John Cromer
In the early 1950s Leonard received a letter from Pat Braun née Millard, a distant cousin. Pat had seen Leonard’s ballets at Rambert and at Sadlers Wells – where she had often seen him take a bow – but they had never met. Soon afterwards Pat and John Braun came for dinner at the Salzedo…
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A Blast of Brass
Leonard Salzedo’s Divertimento for Three Trumpets and Three Trombones was written for the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble in 1959 when both Leonard and Philip were members of the RPO. As Paul Beniston, principal trumpet of the LPO (which Leonard was a member of in the 1940s) said when they played it in 2020: ‘it’s great…
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Leonard Salzedo says no to Marie Rambert but why does she let him off?
The Fugitive The Fugitive, Leonard Salzedo‘s first ballet, was being rehearsed by Ballet Rambert in May 1945 as the Second World War in Europe ended.Marie Rambert, a leading light in ballet all over the world, who had danced for the Diaghilev company in Russia and now ran her own London-based company Ballet Rambert, felt things…
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‘Modern music is rubbish!’
A Concert in 1943 In defiance of the Second World War, cultural events carried on in London and were well-attended, and so in July 1943 at a Concert organised by the Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM) (now called Sound and Music), Leonard Salzedo‘s 2nd String Quartet was premiered. Students Leonard Salzedo and Neville…
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Leonard Salzedo’s Sephardic heritage
The Sephardic Community of Spain The Sephardic Jewish community was expelled from Spain in 1492 and, after a brief time in Portugal, many settled in Amsterdam. Salzedo’s Grandparents Leonard Salzedo’s grandparents, Jacob Lopes Salzedo and Angela Mendes da Costa, emigrated from Amsterdam to London in the 1850s, drawn to the richest city in the world.…
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Leonard Salzedo
My dad My dad Leonard Salzedo was a composer and I really like his music So much so that last year for the Centenary of his birth I made a film Leonard Salzedo A Life Composed in Music which is on YouTube Leonard Salzedo Centenary plus One Celebration Concert on Saturday 24th September 2022 6pm…
