LEONARD SALZEDO SOCIETY

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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • ‘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…