Cheniston K Roland

OLD LERPOOLIAN 1944-1949

Résumé

 

• Born Liverpool 8.3.1932.
• Violin Historian - authority on violin players and the history of violin recordings.
• Educated private school then public school Liverpool College 1944 - 1949.
• Studied violin with J E Matthew, Helga White and Gerhardt Drechsler.
• Merseyside Youth Orchestra 1954 - 1956.
• Graduate Liverpool Matthey School of Music 1950 - 1958.
• Married 1960, wife Jacqueline born 4.10.1937, who is a senior lecturer in business studies in further education,Retired.
• First person to photograph The Beatles on 10 May 1960, the day they changed their name while auditioning at the
  Wyvern Club, Slater Street Liverpool where there is a photo mural of this picture commemorating the event
• Merseyside Arts Festival 1962 - member organizing committee with Roger McGough, Adrian Henri and others.
• Collaborated with author on "Two Centuries of Music in Liverpool"(1974)
• Lecturer in Music Liverpool Citty Council 1974 - 1976.
• Contributor to "The Book Of the Violin" (1984) on violin recordings as an historical document.
• Also broadcasts and lectures. Private collection of 78 rpm violin recordings 1898 - 1951 together with tapes of historical
  broadcasts of live broadcasts of violin performances 1933 - to present .
• Library of scores - Autographs - posters - programmes - letters and other violin memorabilia.
• Hopes Festival 1997 - lectures "Two Centuries of Music in Liverpool - some interesting stories".
• Hopes Festival 1998 - lectures "Paganini's First Visit to Liverpool 1832
• British Medical Institute 1998 - lecture "Paganini's Medical papers with particular reference to Marfan's Syndrome" in collaboration with Dr P Dangerfield of Liverpool University Medical School
• Athenaeum Lecture 1999 - "Paganini's First Visit to Liverpool 1832"
• Hopes Festival 1999 - lectures "Sir Charles Santley" given at St Francis Xaviers Church, where he sang as a child
• Roland's Dictionary of Liverpool Music and Musicians (1999)
• At present researching a book on The Philosophical Concepts of Music.
• Athenaeum Lecture - 2000 - "Sir Chales Santley"
"Encyclopeadia of Death and Dying" Routledge (2000) contribted seven music articles
• Athenaeum Lecture - 2001 "200 Years of Music in Liverpool - updated"
• Athenaeum Lecture - 2001 " The Influence of Music on James Joyce - Tenor"
• Ferrara University Paper - "Aldo Ferraresi the Paganini of Ferrara"
• Athenaeum Lecture - 2002 "A Musical Christmas in Retrospect"
• Ferrara University Lecture - "Jeno Hubay and the Modern Hungarian Violin School"
• Future lectures 2004 arranged and awating dates are:-
• Lexington University - "The Jewish violinist an individual sound"
• Madrid School of Music - "Playing the violin well is only the first step on the concert ladder"
• Frescobaldi Conservatoire - "Musicology the role of the Violin Historian","Paganini's
Disastrous
• Visit to Ferrara", The Four Great Violin Schools in the first half of the twentieth centuary",
"Playing the violin well is only the first step on the concert ladder"
• Athenaeum Lecture - "Feliks Yaniewicz - Athenaeum Proprietor and friend of Haydn and Mozart"
• Book in Progress "
Memoirs of Signior Paganini"


Ref:-

• Dictionary of International Musicians (1974)
• Two Centuries of Music in Liverpool (1974) by Stainton de B Taylor. contributed articles Paganini in Liverpool etc
• Adam magazine (Oct 1981) - Profile edited by the late Miron Grindea MBE.
• The Book of the Violin (1984) Phidon edited Dominic Gill.
• Collaborated in production of LP, and contributed biographical article of Philip Newman (1987).
• Collaborated and advised on the production of 3 CDs of Carl Flesch with violinist,s son Carl Flesch Jnr.
• Supplied life story and personal photographs for "How They Became the Beatles" written by Gareth Polowski (1989)
• The Encyclopaedia of the Beatles People compiled by Bill Harry (1997)page 269
• MUZSIKA - Profile - Hungarian music magazine (July 2003)
• Royal Manchester School of Music web site reference my paper on Philp Newman
• Liverpool Daily Post - Profile (27 April 2002)-
• Beatles Anthology- Apple (2002) - entry and photograph pages 41 -44

Interests:-

• Violin playing and Violins and contacting people who love or are involved in the violin world
• Sherlock Holmes
• Short Wave and Old Time Radio
• Reading, James Joyce, Henry James
• The Internet
• My two dogs "Tara" and "Lotti"

Clubs:-

• Athenæum - Liverpool (established 1797)

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