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Armstrong of Ilminster GCB CVO was the Head of the Civil Service
from 1983-7. He is the son of the English composer Sir Thomas Armstrong,
one of the many lesser-known composers to be championed by the EMF. |
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Brian
Kay is well known
as a radio presenter for BBC2 and Radio 3, for which he won the
Sony Radio Award as Music Presenter of the Year. Brian is currently
conductor of the Leith Hill Music Festival, following in the footsteps
of Ralph Vaughan Williams. He is also fondly remembered as the
bass in the King's Singers and the lowest frog on Paul McCartney's
single as well as being a member of the backing group for Pink
Floyd! |
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Professor
Roger Scruton is a distinguished academic, author, journalist
and composer. He has written extensively on philosophy, music and
England’s cultural heritage, as well as covering a diverse range
of other topics. |
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Chadlington of Dean (Peter Gummer) is the Chairman of Huntsworth
plc, and was previously founder of Shandwick, which grew to become
the world's largest PR company. He sits as a Conservative member
of the House of Lords, where he speaks frequently on heritage and
the arts. |
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Henry Kelly is
known to all as the presenter of numerous television and radio programmes,
particularly at Classic
FM, where he worked
for 12 years. He can now be heard as the drive-time presenter between
4-7 p.m. on London's main news station LBC
97.3 FM. |
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Leonard Slatkin is
internationally recognised as a conductor of the highest stature.
He is Music Director of the National
Symphony Orchestra (USA) and
was formerly Chief Conductor of the BBC
Symphony Orchestra. |
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Guinery is well-known as a radio presenter, particularly on
Radio 3. He is an active member of the Delius Society, of which he
has been the Vice-Chairman. |
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Michael
Kennedy CBE is a familiar name as music critic, author, editor
of the Oxford Dictionary of
Music and biographer of Elgar, Mahler and Vaughan Williams. |
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Patrick
Stewart OBE is an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated film and
stage actor. He has been particularly acclaimed for his Shakeaperean
performances, although he is perhaps most widely known for his role
as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek's Starship
Enterprise. He is a great supporter of classical music, and
is available on CD narrating Prokofiev's Peter
and the Wolf and Strauss's Enoch
Arden. |
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| Jeremy
Irons is an internationally acclaimed and Oscar-winning actor,
perhaps best known for his performance as Charles Ryder in the television
adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead
Revisited. He took part in the EMF 2006 as the narrator for
Vaughan Williams's evocative Oxford
Elegy. |
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Sir
Roger Norrington is known internationally for his work as
a conductor and music director. He has worked with orchestras ranging
from the London Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony and the Montreal Symphony,
and in major opera houses such as the Royal Opera House and the English
National Opera. |
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Ursula
Vaughan Williams† was the wife of one of the greatest
and most widely performed English composers – Ralph Vaughan
Williams. She was an author and poet in her own right and sadly passed
away just a year after the inaugural EMF. |
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| Simon
Jenkins has a successful career as an author and broadcaster.
His most recent publications have been England's
1000 Best Churches and England's
1000 Best Houses. He is a regular correspondent for The
Times, Sunday Times and Guardian. |
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Sir
Patrick Moore is an astronomer, author, broadcaster, musician
and composer. He has written over 60 books on astronomy, and presented
every one of the BBC's Sky at
Night programmes since 1957 - earning him a place in the Guinness
Book of Records as the longest-serving television presenter. |
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Terry Waite CBE was
formerly the Archbishop of Canterbury's Special Envoy, and in this
role he negotiated the release of Western hostages in Iran and Lebanon,
where he was himself captured by militant Islamists and held prisoner
for four years. He is passionate about music and an enthusiast for
British composers such as Elgar.
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Johnson MP is the Mayor of London and a regular columnist
for the Daily Telegraph.
He was formerly Conservative Member of Parliament for the constituency
of Henley-on-Thames (which includes Dorchester-on-Thames, principal
venue for the EMF) and Editor of The
Spectator. |
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The Marquess
of Salisbury (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranbourne) is
a distinguished Parliamentarian who has served in a number of senior
Government posts under Conservative Prime Ministers, and was most
recently Shadow Leader of the House of Lords.
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Julian
Lloyd Webber is widely regarded as one of the most creative
musicians of his generation. The son of the noted British composer
William Lloyd Webber, his skills as a cellist have won him a well-deserved
international reputation. He has given more than 50 works their premiere
recordings - among them important pieces by Bridge, Britten, Sullivan
and Holst. |
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Lady
Bliss† was
the widow of the well-known English composer, Sir
Arthur Bliss.
Felix Aprahamian† was
a music critic of the Sunday
Times, acquaintance of Messiaen,
Poulenc and Delius.
Sir Rowland Whitehead † was
a Baronet who supported the EMF from its inception and devoted
much energy and enthusiasm to getting the inaugural festival
off the ground. |
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