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DISCUSSION: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Music and the Visual World, including contributions from Celia Craig, Halida Dinova and Yekaterina Lebedeva.
William Sterndale Bennett, born in Sheffield, England, on 13 April 1816 was praised by Felix Mendelssohn for a piano concerto written at the age of 16, and later befriended Robert Schumann. A succession of administrative posts - professor of music at Cambridge, later principal of the Royal Academy of Music – did not minimise his output or success as a composer. He died in London on 1 February 1875.
An Outstanding Evening - Bill Newman listens to American pianist Rorianne Schrade
Ensemble. Compact and Imaginative - Judith Bingham's 'Shakespeare Requiem' receives its first performance, heard by Patric Standford