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Emily Mair as Adina, with Graeme Gorton, in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore in 1967. Three years in the BBC Chorus followed, working with eminent conductors. She met and, in 1951, married New Zealand cellist Wilfrid Simenauer. They gave many concerts together.
The Radio Times reveals that, before 1960, Emily broadcast on the BBC (at least) seven times as a collaborative pianist (mostly with Wilf) and twice as a singer. This changed. Between 1960 and 1964, she made just three broadcasts as a pianist, but seven as a singer. 1960 was a pivotal year. Emily appeared at Glyndebourne (as Emily Maire – Mair sounding just a bit too Ayrshire for Glyndebourne management) singing the First Boy in
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There has been nothing quite like the lockdown of 2020-21 in the history of cinema, but it echoes what happened to art cinemas during World War II. In Britain, all cinemas were ordered closed at the outbreak in September 1939 – then were allowed to reopen within the month. Most of them continued even through the Blitz a year later, in 1940-41, but art cinemas – sometimes called ‘continental’ cinemas – were a different case. Some simply never reopened, others went into hibernation; a couple held out. Post-war recovery took a few years, but when it came film culture thrived in Britain as never before.