Conductor and musicologist. Born Schenectady, New York, but when he was three the family move to Australia where he was brought up. An authority on the operas of Janacek and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. Died London.
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Sir Charles MacKerras
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Sir Charles MacKerras
Sir Charles MacKerras, CH, AC, CBE, 1925 - 2010, conductor and musicologist, ...
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Ewan MacColl
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Rev. John Newton
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College of Minor Canons in St Paul’s Cathedral
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BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Dave Shepherd
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