THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
557 LENNOX BERKELEY pen and ink with bodycolour 11 x 12 inches Illustrated: The Sunday Times, 1970s
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Lennox Berkeley Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) was an English composer, known for his collaborations with fellow composer Benjamin Britten, whom he met in 1936. Berkeley was Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music between 1946 and 1968 and President of the Cheltenham Festival from 1977 to 1983. Berkeley is illustrated here against the backdrop of his family home in Little Venice, London.
558 GEORG SOLTI pen and ink with bodycolour 10 x 14 1⁄4 inches Illustrated: The Sunday Times, 1976 Georg Solti Born in Budapest, Georg Solti (1912-1997) was a conductor who worked with numerous opera companies across Europe. He became musical director of the Covent Garden Opera Company in 1961, before he was appointed to the same role at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1969, a post he held for 22 years. This illustration was produced to mark Solti’s recording of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman with the Chicago players in 1976.