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James Durrant has died at the age of 91. Photo courtesy Dawn Durrant The violist James Durrant died in Glasgow on 21 May aged 91. In an extremely productive career, he performed with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish National Orchestra and taught and conducted at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. 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 ....
A FORMER Bolton DHSS nurse and Little Theatre performer has celebrated her 100th birthday. Margaret Watson, Darwen, was born Margaret Prophet in Manchester on February 9 1921 to Dorothy, a music hall cellist and Robert, a comedian. Even from a very early age the young Margaret imbibed her parents’ artistic sensibilities and studied singing under international soprano Isobel Baillie at the age of 15, however the Second World War would put her on a very different path. Son Roger said: “On the outbreak of war in 1939 she enrolled as a nurse and trained during the blitz, where despite braving parachute mines and rooftop-flying German bombers, she found herself nursing wounded Nazis in a ward guarded by an armed soldier.” ....
A DARWEN resident whose life has encompassed theatre, classical singing and serving as a nurse in the Second World War today celebrates her 100th birthday. Margaret Watson was born Margaret Prophet in Manchester in 1921 to Dorothy, a music hall cellist and Robert, a comedian. Even from a very early age the young Margaret imbibed her parents’ artistic sensibilities and studied singing under international soprano Isobel Baillie at the age of 15, however the Second World War would put her on a very different path. Son Roger said: “On the outbreak of war in 1939 she enrolled as a nurse and trained during the blitz, where despite braving parachute mines and rooftop-flying German bombers, she found herself nursing wounded Nazis in a ward guarded by an armed soldier.” ....