James Durrant has died at the age of 91. Photo courtesy Dawn Durrant
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In a 2005 profile of Durrant for
The Strad, the music critic and journalist Tully Potter wrote ‘It would be easy to depict Jimmy Durrant as an eccentric, especially if you have seen him on the concert platform. He plays a battered modern viola (by Giovanni Balti Morassi, Cremona, 1974) which he ran over in his car 22 years ago; and in his performing days a party piece was
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