[…]n't American, Colorado, she's still alive. still playing her keyboard inventing songs and things. And I think probably most of my greatest part of my musical influences came from originally from her she played the piano, I would have been shut down and lots ofvarious bits of Debussy in Japan, partic[…]
[…]rding invested in the BECTU History - ProjectSIDE 1, TAPE 1.TD: Can you tell us where you were born, your education, your youth and now you came into musicAlexander Faris: I was born in Caledon, in what is County Tyrone, in what is now Northern Ireland but there is a Story in that I was born, I was […]
[…]bsp;537a Finchley Rd, Hampstead, NW3.JS: You were educated at…RA: The [?]School and University College School, both in Hampstead.JS: Did you have any musical education there?RA: I had some piano lessons from a character called Richard Chanter, and his way of giving me a lesson would be to say play m[…]
[…] but I did specialise in school quite a bit in music, and my mother seemed to think that I had […]
[…], I was in Ross, I was in school there. Convents, schooling, I can't claim any academic qualifications, but I did specialise in school quite a bit in music, and my mother seemed to think that I had some, I mean, and my mother was one of those people who I think thought I should have to do everything[…]
[…] Eight… and I can remember Monday Night at Eight when it was Monday Night at Seven before they changed it to eight o’clock. MDWhat kind of music was being played on the radio then, to give people a flavour of the time? BAOh… Henry Hall, and I used to love all the things like “Oh Mama[…]
[…]he handouts. But I would write skeptical bits about whether the handouts were right and I did because I was supposed to be cultured and I did all the music criticisms, all the arts criticisms which was ludicrous because I hadn’t got a clue. But I would go to somebody there and say “Look what ought I[…]
[…]hildren and the dancing class thrived. It got bigger and bigger.We did all kinds of dancing. I didn’t just do ballet. I did Greek dancing, acrobatic, musical comedy, also ballroom dancing. I liked the Greek dancing the best, barefoot. It was sort of imitation Isadora Duncan. The people in England...[…]
[…]ep doing that.DS: No, John P will put me right.JPH: Your parents were living in Wandsworth.DS: Oh yes, yes. Because my father was Charles Shadwell, a musician, a musical director. He was MD Musical Director at the Putney Hippodrome at that time, so that’s why I was born in that area. But s[…]
