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Allan Stephenson, British composer, conductor and cellist who became a leading figure on the South African music scene – obituary He contributed to an opera about Nelson Mandela, worked with Hugh Masekela and premiered several major works in his adopted country Allan Stephenson Allan Stephenson, who has died aged 71, was a British-born cellist, composer and conductor who made his name in South Africa; among more than 110 works he contributed the first act of The Mandela Trilogy, an opera by three composers in which his contribution explored Nelson Mandela’s early years in rural Transkei and his initiation into adulthood. Stephenson was responsible for the South African premiere of several major European pieces, notably Nielsen’s Symphony No 4, the “Inextinguishable”. He was also behind the first classical music CD to be made in South Africa, a recording of his Concertino Pastorale for Clarinet. ....
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A PROFESSIONAL musician who has played with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has been using his time during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown to record a new album - with his mum. Laurence Davies, 54, is more used to playing the French Horn on many Hollywood film scores recorded at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios in London, including the Marvel and Avenger series, Pixel and the latest James Bond movie No Time to Die which has yet to be released. He was a member of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for ten years and now works as a freelance studio musician. Now he has been recording a new album of classical music with his 80-year-old mother Helen, who has spent her life working as a professional pianist after studying in Vienna. ....
Henry Wickens remembers his friend Alan Carlisle, the well-loved all-round musician who died at his home in Haller on 8 December 2020 at the age of 72. Alan studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music, specialising in the French horn and singing, but after a time as a professional musician he decided to make his living with his other talents in the emerging area of IT, and got a job with the UK computing firm ICL in London in 1972. The story of how he came to Luxembourg is typical of the way the two strands of his life intertwined. ICL was involved in the European Commission’s first automated translation project, SYSTRAN, and it was a colleague of his working in Luxembourg who first invited him here in 1981 not as a computer professional but to sing the role of Nanki-Poo in Pirate Productions’ staging of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado”. ....