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The prodigy with a tin whistle who took music around the world
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The Shakespeare family in Croydon had multiple musical talents. From a portrait of a Victorian soprano, DAVID MORGAN traces the local connections to a small boy playing the organ at St Andrew’s and beyond in a career lasting … Continue reading
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Tagged Adelina Patti, Arthur Rubinstein, Croydon, Croydon Minster, Croydon Parish Church, Crystal Palace, Franz Liszt, James Sant, JB Shakespeare, Jenny Lind, Johannes Brahms, Queen Victoria, Royal Academy of Music, St Andrew's Church, St Andrews, William Shakespeare
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Croydon painter Sant, a portrait artist by Royal Appointment
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: One hundred and fifty years ago, Queen Victoria chose a Croydon-born artist to be her ‘Principal Painter in Ordinary to Her Majesty’, but as DAVID MORGAN discovered, she never liked his work As Croydon celebrates being the London … Continue reading
