Detail from the personification of Spring and the nymph Chloris by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510)

January 2011 Anniversaries

Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, 40th death anniversary on 10 January

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Alfred Brendel, Anglo-Austrian pianist, 80th birthday on 5 January

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Lebrecht Music & Arts are delighted to announce that Rodrigo Carrizo Couto, Spanish photographer and journalist working in Switzerland, has placed his striking and intimate photographs of musicians, singers, film stars and directors with our photo library. This provides Lebrecht with an extra dimension, enabling us to cover European performers as well as those in the English speaking world. Search under Rodrigo Carrizo Couto, on www.lebrecht.co.uk

Jazz musicians include Tori Amos – American pianist and songwriter, Sting – British musician, Solomon Burke – American rock and soul songwriter,Carlos Santana – American guitarist, Paco de Lucia – Spanish flamenco guitarist, Michel Legrand – French composer and conductor, Juliette Greco – French actress and singer.

Tori Amos - American pianist and songwriter

Sting - British musician

Carlos Santana - American guitarist

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Michel Legrand - French composer and conductor

Juliette Greco - French actress and singer

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His coverage takes in the annual Montreux Jazz Festival, founded in 1967 and one of the most prestigious in Europe; it is held annually in early July on the shores of Lake Geneva.

Classical musicians include Yuja Wang – Chinese pianist, Martha Argerich – Argentinian pianist, Gidon Kremer – Russian violinist, Evgeny Kissin and Michael Tilson-Thomas, Danielle Gatti – Italian conductor, Sol Gabetta, Lang Lang -Chinese pianist, Rodion Shchedrin. Many of these musicians regularly take part in the Verbier summer music festival to enjoy music in the relaxed mountain atmosphere .

Yuja Wang - Chinese pianist

Martha Argerich - Argentinian pianist

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Lang Lang -Chinese pianist

Michael Tilson-Thomas

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Film stars and film directors include Anthony Hopkins – British actor, Christian Slater and Spanish film director Carlos Salva.

Anthony Hopkins - British actor

Spanish film director Carlos Salva

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Anniversaries:

13 August – Florence Nightingale’s 100th death anniversary – British nurse active in caring for soldiers in the Crimean War
14 August – Sarah Brightman’s 50th birthday – British star of Phantom of the Opera
21 August – Leon Trotsky’s 70th assasination anniversary
23 August – Oscar Hammerstein II’s 50th anniversary of his death – American librettist and lyricist of famous Broadway musicals such as South Pacific

Florence Nightingale

Leon Trotsky

South Pacific

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5 September – Osvaldo Golijov 50th birthday of Argentinian composer
7 September – start of the London Blitz 70th anniversary
11 September – D H Lawrence 125th anniversary of British novelist

Osvaldo Golijov

St Paul's Cathedral

D H Lawrence

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Theatrical nostalgia is the flavour of this month for everyone at Lebrecht. We are very honoured to announce that we now represent the Gwen Watford collection of actors and actresses. This collection spans the late 19th century through to the 1950s and covers English, French, German and American stars of the stage. The great English actors are all covered in this unique archive: John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, Matheson Lang, John Barrymore, Peggy Ashcroft, Sybil Thorndike, Ralph Richardson, Donald Sinden, Coral Browne, Abraham Sofaer. This archive joins the extensive coverage that we already have of early and late twentieth century international actors.

Gwen Watford was a world class English actress famous for her film and stage roles. Her debut film role was Lady Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher (1949). Notable stage roles included Ugo Betti’s The Queen and the Rebels at the Haymarket, London in 1955, Schiller’s Mary Stuart at the Old Vic Theatre, Christopher Hampton’s When Did You Last See My Mother? (1966) at the Royal Court Theatre, London, Noel Coward’s Present Laughter at the Vaudeville Theatre and she won a SWET award for her performance as the managerial secretary to Donald Sinden’s matinee idol. She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1982. She also appeared in the early days of television drama when superb writers like David Mercer, James Saunders, David Hare, Willis Hall, Hugh Leonard and Roy Minton were supplying the tv scripts and the actors were performing ‘live’ so that the tension of the theatre was almost replicated on the television screens at home. As well as being nominated in 1969, Gwen Watford was the winner of the Best Actress award at the BAFTAs in 1958 and 1965.

We have also received some more fabulous photos from the archives of our classic b/w photographers. Godfrey MacDomnic, British photographer, whose iconic Leonard Bernstein photo appeared on the London underground last autumn, has given us more of his work from when he was at EMI in the late 1950s through to the 1970s – Sviatoslav Richter, Alexander Gibson, George Szell, Hans Rosbaud, Ferenc Fricsay, Leonid Kogan – all the great musicians of this period.

Marion Kalter, French-American photographer, has worked in the European music world for many years. Her subjects include the American composers John Cage, George Crumb and Lukas Foss, German composer Jorg Widmann, Argentinian composer Maurizio Kagel, and she also covers Salzburg Festival opera productions.

Sabine Toepffer, German photographer, photographed the classic productions at the Bavarian State Opera house. The opera stars who performed here included not only the famous German opera singers of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s but also many other nationalities. Performers, conductors and directors include Marianne Schech, Peter Glossop, Nicolai Gedda, Yuri Lyubimov, Carlos Kleiber, Fritz Wunderlich, Hans Hotter, Hermann Prey, Hans Knappertsbusch.

Lebrecht photographer Dorothy Bohm ‘s exhibition ‘A World Observed’ opens April 24th at Manchester Art Gallery. The exhibition covers her very special view of the world from 1940 up until 2010. As well as being a distinguished photographer she is a founder member of the London ‘Photographer’s Gallery’.

Mark Twain, American novelist

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