Vaughan Williams Festival

 at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge

Friday 31st October - Sunday 2nd November 2008

Honorary Patrons:  Professor Robert Lethbridge, Benjamin Luxon CBE,  Iain Burnside

 
 

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Diana McVeagh - speaker
Diana McVeagh is one of the country's most respected authorities on English music today.  She is the distinguished author of Edward Elgar: His Life and Music, Edward Elgar: The Music Maker and Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music, She was also responsible for the entries on Elgar and Finzi in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and for the Finzi entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 

She studied with Frank Howes and Kathleen Long at the Royal College of Music and then went on to contribute to The Times (1947-69) and was an assistant editor on Musical Times (1965-67).  

She was a member of the Royal Musical Association Council (1961-76), and of the executive committee of the New Grove (1970-76).  


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