Moira Bennett Change of Key (Paperback)
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Further Details Title: Change of Key Condition: New EAN: 9780957167216 ISBN: 9780957167216 Publisher: Bittern Press Format: Paperback Release Date: 02/17/2017 Item Height: 234mm Item Length: 156mm Author: Moira Bennett Language: English Subtitle: Africa to the Arts ISBN-10: 0957167210 Description: Moira Bennett casts her perceptive, wry and amused eye over a childhood and adolescence in South Africa and her years raising sponsorship for the Aldeburgh Festival, the Barbican Centre and the London Symphony Orchestra.In her early fifties, Moira Bennett was widowed with a school-age son and in need of a job. With virtually no previous working experience but full of energy and determination, she found herself working at the Britten-Pears Schoolat Snape, helping to run masterclasses for young professional musicians studying with artists such as Peter Pears, Galina Vishnevskaya, Mstislav Rostropovich, Hugues Cuénod and William Pleeth. Her gift for arts administration - understanding the needs of performers and audiences - was soon to become highly valued at Aldeburgh, as she became the Registrar at the Britten-Pears School and went on to create the post of Development Director in the early days ofcommercial sponsorship of the arts. She was later invited to take on a similar role at the Barbican Centre, supporting a series of international arts festivals, before going on to work with the London Symphony Orchestra.In 2012 the Bittern Press published Moira Bennett's history of the Britten-Pears School, Making Musicians, which Classical Music magazine made one its Books of the Year. Now in her early nineties, Moira Bennett has written an extraordinary autobiography, casting an astute eye over her childhood and adolescence in South Africa, the impact of the Second World War and the Apartheid years on the country, and her second, 'unexpected', life in the arts. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Genre: Music Dance & Theatre Item Weight: 1g Release Year: 2017 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
