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Corsham for me is a school-boy clarinetist’s memory of an Easter holidays music course held there in either 1947 or 1948, with, among others, my friends of the Amadeus Quartet. Some of the students of the Bath Academy of Art stayed on to help, I remember, but had been told to “watch out for those musicians, they’re lecherous”. Now some forty years later the tables have turned and so it is with great pleasure that we present this exhibition. An exhibition on the subject of Corsham was given by the Arts Council in 1965. This present exhibition has been organised by a small commercial London gallery with unfortunately absolutely no support from either the South-East or South-West Arts (Arts Council funded). Perhaps they will take notice that we have done it.
For belief and help l am indebted to Victoria Barwell of the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, and to Julian Freeman of the Brighton Polytechnic Gallery. The greatest indebtedness of all, however, is to Dr David Brown (former Assistant Keeper at the Tate Gallery) for not only his painstaking selection of the exhibition but also his writing of a full introduction to the catalogue while always displaying a thoroughly good humour. Finally, I would like to thank Tamsyn Woolicombe from the Parkin Gallery for many long hours of burning the candle and for acting as David’s “minder”.
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