LEONARD SALZEDO SOCIETY

Tag: Conway Hall

  • 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…

  • What a wonderful night!

    A large and enthusiastic audience of people attended Conway Hall, London, on Saturday 24th September 2022, for a celebration concert of Leonard Salzedo’s music exactly 101 years to the day since he was born. The beautiful programme full of photos and information guided everyone to a wonderfully varied and inspirational concert. Brass first then piano…

  • It’s the Leonard Salzedo Celebration Concert tomorrow

    Two years in the planning; originally we were going to hold it in 2021, Leonard Salzedo’s centenary year, but because of covid we delayed it a year and made the film Leonard Salzedo A Life Composed in Music instead. And now it’s only a day away. Buy tickets and programmes here The Artists We approached…

  • Leonard Salzedo’s links with Trinity Laban Conservatoire

    Violinist and teacher Nicholas Roth and his wife pianist Rucky van Mill met Leonard Salzedo in the early 1960s. Soon after, they moved from their flat in Kilburn to a house in Wembley, round the corner from the Salzedo family home, with their daughter Rucky. Living in Wembley in the 1960s Budapest trio Leonard also…

  • 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…

  • 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…