Britain's leading exponent of Kodaly's principles of musicianship training, founder of the British Kodaly Academy,
Born in Budapest, Vajda studied with Kodály. From the Picture source: "... came to the United Kingdom in 1969 at the request of Yehudi Menuhin and on the recommendation of Zoltán Kodály to introduce Kodály's Principles of Musicianship Training to the UK."
Died in London. The Independent obit.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Professor Cecília Vajda
We visited 5 weeks after the unveiling and the velcro that held the curtain w...
Successful pop career in a family band, the Dooleys, in the 70s & 80s.
Londonist writes: "The building was destroyed on Boxing Day 1937 and reopened in 1939. HMV's flagship store moved (slightly) to 150 Oxford Street, but the old address was reacquired in 2013, and re...
Pop group. Originally, the group comprised four Jamaican born singers. They achieved world-wide chart success with songs such as 'Ma Baker', 'Rivers of Babylon' and 'Rasputin'.
World Wide Words provides the following explanation: Some of the references are now quite opaque, but we can take a fair shot at a few. In the second verse, the City Road was, still is, a well-know...
Composer of the Classical period - prominent and prolific. Born Austria as Franz Joseph Haydn. Aged 6 he was sent away to train as a musician. Worked primarily for the wealthy Esterházy family. ...
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