{"id":1305,"date":"2013-09-24T10:15:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T09:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2013-09-23T14:43:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T13:43:24","slug":"the-midst-of-life-a-hearty-celebration-of-the-life-and-music-of-stephen-dodgson-1924-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"The Midst of Life’ A Hearty Celebration of the Life and Music of STEPHEN DODGSON (1924-2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Midst of Life: Celebrating the Life and Music of Stephen Dodgson<\/a><\/h1>\n

MAE Foundation<\/a><\/h2>\n

Thursday, October 3, 2013 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM (BST)<\/h2>\n
\n

London, United Kingdom\"\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

featuring<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Tippett String Quartet\"MAE
\nJohn Williams (guitar)
\nMaggie Cole (harpsichord)
\nRichard Harvey (recorder)
\nAnna Noakes (flute)
\nGillian Tingay (harp)
\nZone 6 Brass Quintet
\nRoger Chase (viola)
\nBenedict Cruft (violin)
\nBrian Gulland (bassoon)
\nTom Ellis (guitar)
\nand more… subject to availability<\/p>\n

The Tippett String Quartet, who have recorded all nine of Stephen\u00a0<\/strong>Dodgson’s quartets, and John Williams, who has played his music for 57 years, lead this wide-ranging celebration of his life and work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A tribute to a great soul and a friend with whom I spent many hours in frank discussion, he was one of the guitar’s champions and a truly original mind. This is another celebration which you shouldn’t miss!\u00a0Tickets still available<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Enthusiastic, ebullient and quick-witted,\u00a0Dodgson<\/a>\u00a0was extremely voluble, with a strong, distinctive voice, an ever-present smile, much old-world courtesy, and an idiosyncratic gait.” from his\u00a0Obituary in the Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n

Another obituary in The Stage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This celebration of Stephen Dodgson is raising funds for the MAE Foundation,<\/strong>\u00a0which aims to provide musical instruments and music teaching to thousands of refugee children from Burma in the jungle refugee camps along the Thai border.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the changes now taking place in Myanmar, the children in these camps — more than 60,000 of them — will still be living in temporary, leaf-roofed huts in the jungle for years to come.<\/p>\n

The MAE Foundation<\/a>, set up three years ago by Richard Harvey, a former student of Stephen Dodgson, is already helping more than a thousand of these bright, enthusiastic refugee children learn to play music together.<\/p>\n

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