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John Christie, who died five years ago, is bt
known as the founder of the Glyndebourn!
Festival Opera House.
His life was a full one. An only child, he was
sent to Eton, where later he returned as a
member of the Science staff. His sixteen years
as a schoolmaster were interrupted by two
years of active service in the First World War,
when he won the Military Cross. After the
death of his grandfather his father gave him
the use of Glyndebourne, an ancient but much
renovated country house in the Sussex downs,
which soon became an absorbing interest to
him. In 1930 his father, who had always been
mentally unstable, died leaving his Devonshire
properties away from the family; this caused
a celebrated lawsuit in which John Christie and
his mother were successful. A year later John
married Audrey Mildmay, the opera singer,
with whose help he created the Opera Festival
which, in spite of some initial scepticism, has
triumphantly succeeded and is now an accepted...
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Fülszöveg
John Christie, who died five years ago, is bt
known as the founder of the Glyndebourn!
Festival Opera House.
His life was a full one. An only child, he was
sent to Eton, where later he returned as a
member of the Science staff. His sixteen years
as a schoolmaster were interrupted by two
years of active service in the First World War,
when he won the Military Cross. After the
death of his grandfather his father gave him
the use of Glyndebourne, an ancient but much
renovated country house in the Sussex downs,
which soon became an absorbing interest to
him. In 1930 his father, who had always been
mentally unstable, died leaving his Devonshire
properties away from the family; this caused
a celebrated lawsuit in which John Christie and
his mother were successful. A year later John
married Audrey Mildmay, the opera singer,
with whose help he created the Opera Festival
which, in spite of some initial scepticism, has
triumphantly succeeded and is now an accepted
institution in the pattern of English life.
Mr. Blunt has given in this book a lively
picture of a man who was often considered an
eccentric, yet who epitomized something really
worth while in his generation.
Vissza