Front and Back Stage Derek Jewell has been the Schools Prom Director and Presenter since he launched the event in 1975 whilst Publishing Director of Times Newspapers Ltd. Now pursuing his business career with the International Thomson Organisation, he has also been a writer and broadcaster for many years, most notably as Jazz and Popular Music Critic of The Sunday Times. His books include two novels; a biography of Duke Bllington, Duke; and a collection of reportage on music, The Pop~tlar Voice, which has just been published in paperback (Sphere Books). He is an honorary adviser and adjudicator for the National Festival of Music for Youth and a member of the BBC's Central Music Advisory Council.
Larry Westland, Producer, is well-known for his work in youth music, notably as Director of the National Festival of Music for Youth, which he founded in 1971. In eleven years, the Festival has grown i11to the most comprehensive youth music festival in Europe. The Festival embraces all forms of instrumental music and this year some 20,000 young musicians took part. He was closely involved with the launch of the Schools Prom in 1975. Since that date, he has been responsible for the production and presentation of the concerts. He is General Administrator of the British Marching Band Championships, which he founded in 1978 in conjunction with the British Youth Band Association. This year he has joined forces with the National Association of Choirs to stage the first-ever Festival of Choirs at the Barbican Arts Centre and the Royal Albert Hall on 3 May. 1982. He has also presented numerous concerts by British youth orchestra and his other activities include the presentation of charity concerts and the British Music Fair.
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Humphrey Lyttelton, guest mus,:cian, well-known jazz musician and journalist, trained at art school and started work in 1949 as a cartoonist on the London Daily Mail. He formed his fust jazz band in 1948 and the Humphrey Lyttelton Band with Wally Fawkes on clarinet soon became the leading traditional jazz band in Britain and toured Switzerland, Holland, Germany and Scandinavia. H e signed a recording contract in 1949 and in 1956 his composition Bad Penny Blues was the first Britishjazz record co get into the Top 20. Since then he has moved away from New Orleans-style jazz and now leads a band of top British jazz musicians who play music with emphasis on swing. entertainment and versatility. He has played alongside such famous names as Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, Sidney Bechet and Buck Clayton. Humphrey Lyttelton has written three autobiographical books, numerous jazz and restaurant columns and has been a regular broadcaster on radio and television. He composes his own music for his band and has recorded more than 100 compositions his latest albums being One Day I met an Africa" and The Best of Humphl'ey Lyttelton. 27