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Married to the Music

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I A new four-part series charting the lives and influence of less well-known wives of composers. Caroline Alice Roberts. Michael Kennedy and Wendy Hillary reflect on the life of the woman who forfeited her inheritance and all connection with herfamily in orderto become Mrs Edward Elgar in 1886. Roberts was nine years olderthan him and she supported him even to the extent of ruling the staves on blank paperfor his compositions. There are many who believe thatwithout her,
Eigar would never have written anything of merit. Producer Rosie Boulton

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Caroline Alice Roberts.
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Michael Kennedy
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Wendy Hillary
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Mrs Edward Elgar
Producer:
Rosie Boulton
Source: Radio Times

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