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A Lifetime of Music: 4: Music and Pictures

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John Amis takes another trip down memory lane.

Today he revisits two galleries: the National in Trafalgar Square where he helped Myra Hess with the famous lunchtime concerts during the war: and one In Piccadilly where he first encountered the extraordinary Gerard Hoffnung. En route - Schumann, Respighi, Malcolm Arnold and Joyce Grenfell.
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(Gramophone records)

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Presenter:
John Amis
Producer:
Derek Drescher
Source: Radio Times

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