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CLASSICAL: Forty years of luring some of the best artists around; Richard Hawley, artistic director at Abbotsholme Arts Society and the Lichfield Festival, talks to Christopher Morley about its 40th season.(Features)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20070927
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Byline: Christopher Morley

What has brought the likes of Alfred Brendel, Paul Tortelier, Yehudi Menuhin, John Dankworth and Cleo Laine, Jonathan Miller, Evelyn Glennie, Vladimir Ashkenazy and dozens of other top-class artists to the depths of Staffordshire?

The answer is Abbotsholme Arts Society, a thriving enterprise which this year is celebrating its 40th season of promoting performances in this comparatively remote region.

It was all the brainchild of Gordon Clark, director of music at Abbotsholme School in the Dove Valley just south of Ashbourne, who invited the ...

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