LEONARD SALZEDO SOCIETY

Tag: Marie Rambert

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • ‘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…