Tag: #classicalmusic
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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 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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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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