Tag: Music

  • Leonard Salzedo 24/9/21 – 6/5/00

    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…

  • 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…

  • A chance meeting around Easter changes two lives forever

    Leonard writes: “One Saturday afternoon in March 1945 I received a telephone call from a Basil Ashmore who asked me to come and see him later that afternoon at the Gateway Theatre, Notting Hill Gate.  When I arrived the young lady I met didn’t seem very pleased to see me but said she would call…