“The Leeds Boa Constrictor”
How A Provincial Musical Festival Destroyed the Public Careers of Sir Arthur Sullivan and Sir Charles Stanford
Our next Stanford Society online talk which will be given by Dr Anne Stanyon on Wednesday 17 May at 19:30 (UK time). Please do join us if you can.
Anne is from County Armagh. She trained originally as a stage designer, before moving into graphics and illustration and still drawing graphic novels. She went on to read History at the Universities of Warwick and Oxford, becoming a late Medieval/Tudor specialist. She undertook her PhD in 2018, from the School of Music, University of Leeds, having studied with Professors Derek Scott and Michael Allis, while researching the Sullivan era and beyond, at the Leeds Triennial Musical Festival.
In 2022, she became the inaugural recipient of the Society for Musicology in Ireland’s Research Fellowship and is currently engaged on a biography relating to Sir Arthur Sullivan’s working career and is now the Vice-president of the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society.
The talk will be around 30-40 minutes and will have a small Q&A session afterwards for anyone who may wish to ask a question.
The link to register for this zoom talk is HERE. Once you are registered, you will receive details of the talk and how to join. Please let us know if you have any issues with this.
We will open the talk at 19:15 to make sure participants can join in good time.
See you there!
