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Blackheath Conservatoire
The Conservatoire (formally The Blackheath Conservatoire of Music and the Arts) is an educational charity in Blackheath, on the border of the London boroughs of Greenwich and Lewisham. The Conservatoire of Music and the Arts took on its current structure in 1991 with the merger of the Blackheath Conservatoire of Music and the Blackheath School of Art, which until that point had operated separately on the adjoining sites, but under the same board. The Conservatoire is so called as it was a generic term for a music school at the time of its establishment, but it is not one in the present sense of a higher education establishment dedicated to music, and does not award its own qualifications. It does, however, offer GCSEs and A-levels, along with graded music exams. The Conservatoire offers classes in art, music and drama for adults and children. History Blackheath Conservatoire of Music (1881–1991) The Conservatoire of Music was founded by a local group led by William Webst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charitable Organization
A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, Religion, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good). The legal definition of a charitable organization (and of charity) varies between countries and in some instances regions of the country. The Charity regulators, regulation, the tax treatment, and the way in which charity law affects charitable organizations also vary. Charitable organizations may not use any of their funds to profit individual persons or entities. However, some charitable organizations have come under scrutiny for spending a disproportionate amount of their income to pay the salaries of their leadership. Financial figures (e.g. tax refunds, revenue from fundraising, revenue from the sale of goods and services or revenue from investment, and funds held in reserve) are indicators to assess the financial sustainability of a charity, especiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a National Health Service trust named after the ancient Oxleas Woods between Bexley and Greenwich. Current status Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS Foundation Trust providing community health, mental health and learning disability services primarily to the London Boroughs of London Borough of Bromley, Bromley, Royal Borough of Greenwich, Greenwich and London Borough of Bexley, Bexley. The trust provides additional specialist forensic psychiatric services to people from London Borough of Lewisham, Lewisham as well as its core areas and healthcare services to prisons in Kent. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust headquarters are at Dartford and in-patient services are located at the campuses of Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup; Princess Royal University Hospital, Farnborough, London, Farnborough, Kent and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich. Forensic in-patient services are concentrated at the Bracton Centre in Dartford. Memorial Hospital is a hospital owned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Gill
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker. Although the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' describes Gill as "the greatest artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a letter-cutter and type designer of genius", he is also a figure of considerable controversy following the revelations of his sexual abuse of two of his daughters and of his pet dog. Gill was born in Brighton and grew up in Chichester, where he attended the local college before moving to London. There he became an apprentice with a firm of ecclesiastical architects and took evening classes in stone masonry and calligraphy. Gill abandoned his architectural training and set up a business cutting memorial inscriptions for buildings and headstones. He also began designing chapter headings and title pages for books. As a young man, Gill was a member of the Fabian Society, but later resigned. Initially identifying w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Farjeon
Harry Farjeon (6 May 1878 – 29 December 1948) was a British composer and an influential teacher of harmony and composition at the Royal Academy of Music for more than 45 years. Early life and studies Harry Farjeon was born in Hohokus Township, New Jersey, United States, the eldest son of author Benjamin Farjeon, who was from the East End of London, and Margaret, the daughter of American actor Joseph Jefferson. His parents returned to Britain when he was a baby, and he lived in Hampstead in London for the rest of his life. His younger sister, Eleanor Farjeon (b. 1881), with whom he shared a rich imaginary life, wrote children's books and poetry, including the hymn, '' Morning Has Broken''. His younger brothers were J. Jefferson Farjeon (b. 1883), novelist, and Herbert Farjeon (b. 1887), writer of theatrical revues. Harry studied music privately with Landon Ronald and John Storer, then in 1895 he entered the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied composition wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora Cundell
Nora Lucy Mowbray Cundell (20 May 1889 – 3 August 1948) was an English painter of figure subjects, flowers and landscapes in oil and watercolours. Biography Cundell was born in London and was the granddaughter of the artist Henry Cundell. She attended the Blackheath School of Art and the Westminster Technical Institute where she was taught by Walter Sickert. Cundell studied part-time at the Slade School of Art from 1911 to 1914, and then again in 1919. At the Slade, she won the Melvill Nettleship Prize for figure composition in 1914. In 1925, Cundell had her first solo exhibition at the Redfern Gallery in London. Her painting ''Maggie'' was exhibited at the salon of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris during 1929. In 1930 Cundell was among the founding members of the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers/Printmakers. Cundell visited America on a regular basis and in particular painted portraits of Native Americans and also landscapes in Arizona and Colorado. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Coombs
Stephen Coombs (born 11 July 1960 in Birkenhead) is a British pianist who works with orchestras and conductors, as well as performing as a solo artist. Early life Coombs first became prominent in music at the age of thirteen, when he won second prize in the English National Piano Competition. Coombs first studied under Joan Slade privately, then Heather Slade-Lipkin at first privately and then at the Royal Northern College of Music (under 19s section). Finally, he studied with Gordon Green at the Royal Academy of Music.Profile allmusic.com. Accessed 24 January 2023. Career Coombs' career was later launched by winning the gold medal at the Liszt International Concourse; a career that continued to develop throughout the 1980s, as Coombs appeared, both in Britain and a ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bertram Carter
George Bertram Carter (1 March 1896 – January 1986) was an English architect. Carter attended Blackheath School of Art between 1911 and 1915 and then the Royal College of Art under William Lethaby and Arthur Beresford Pite between 1915 and 1917. He was a pupil in the office of Edwin Lutyens between 1919 and 1922 and became Hon, Treasurer of the Modern Architectural Research Group, or MARS Group, in 1944. Career Carter set up in practice in Clifford's Inn, London in 1929. His works include: *A factory in Tottenham for B. E. White Esq. *A factory in Whitechapel for Lessor Bros. *Taymount Grange, Forest Hill, London (1935) *Lichfield Court, Sheen Road, Richmond (1935); Grade II listedThe Twentieth Century Society reported the listing of Lichfield Court, saying: *Pipenham Hall, Little Hallingbury, Essex *The Nurses' Home, St John's Hospital, Lewisham (1938; demolished after the hospital site was sold in 1986 to be developed for housing}. *Heal's (formerly Dunn's) Furnitu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Ross Burnett
Cecil Ross Burnett (27 April 1872 – 6 December 1933) was a British landscape artist and portraitist. He signed his work "C. Ross Burnett". Early life and education Burnett was born in Old Charlton, Kent; his father, William Charles Burnett, was a banker. He trained at Blackheath School of Art and the Westminster School of Art before entering the Royal Academy School in 1892. In 1895 he won the Turner gold medal and a scholarship for landscape painting, and a silver medal for a portrait from life. Career He specialised in portraits and in mostly rural landscapes, many created near Amberley, Sussex, where he had a cottage. He worked in oil and watercolour, and was a member of the New Society of Painters in Water-Colours from 1910 and of the Langham Sketching Club and the Pencil Society. Burnett exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. He entered works in the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
York Bowen
Edwin York Bowen (22 February 1884 – 23 November 1961) was an English composer and pianist. Bowen's musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a talented conductor, organist, violist and horn player. Despite achieving considerable success during his lifetime, many of the composer's works remained unpublished and unperformed until after his death in 1961. Bowen's compositional style is widely considered ‘Romantic music, Romantic’ and his works are often characterized by their rich harmonic language. Biography Bowen was born in Crouch Hill, London, to a father who was the owner of the whisky distillers Bowen and McKechnie. The youngest of three sons, Bowen began piano and harmony lessons with his mother at an early age. His talent was recognised almost immediately and he soon began his musical education at the North Metropolitan College of Music. He subsequently went on to study at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Percy Bliss
Douglas Percy Bliss (28 January 1900 – 11 March 1984; Urdu: ڈگلس پرسی بلیس) was a Scottish painter and art conservationist. Bliss's family was of Northamptonshire, England. His grandfather moved to Moray, Scotland. Bliss himself was born in Karachi, India (but now in Pakistan). Bliss was raised in Edinburgh and educated at George Watson's College from 1906–17. He always regarded himself as Scottish. Bliss left school in 1917 to join the Highland Light Infantry until the end of World War I. In 1922 he was awarded an M.A. in English Literature by the University of Edinburgh. He had studied Art History in his first year. Bliss then studied painting at the Royal College of Art in London. In his postgraduate year he studied engraving. In 1925 the Oxford University Press published his engravings illustrating Border ballads. Bliss then received a number of commissions, including a commission to write ''A History of Wood Engraving''. This work received such crit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life Drawing
A figure drawing is a drawing of the human form in any of its various shapes and Human positions, postures, using any of the drawing Drawing#Media, media. The term can also refer to the act of producing such a drawing. The degree of representation may range from highly detailed, anatomically correct renderings to loose and expressive sketches. A life drawing is a drawing of the human figure, traditionally Nude (art), nude, from observation of a Model (art), live model. Creating life drawings, or life studies, in a life class, has been a large element in the traditional training of artists in the Western world since the Renaissance. A figure drawing may be a composed work of art or a figure study done in preparation for a more finished work, such as a painting. Figure drawing is arguably the most difficult subject an artist commonly encounters, and entire courses are dedicated to the subject. The human figure is one of the most enduring themes in the visual arts, and the human fig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackheath Halls
Blackheath Halls is a 600-seat concert hall on Lee Road in Blackheath, London, United Kingdom. It claims to be London's oldest surviving purpose-built cultural venue.http://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/blackheath-halls/about-blackheath-halls About Blackheath Halls History It was established via a public subscription and built in 1895. Some sources suggest it was constructed by the firm of William Webster, though this may reflect his son William's involvement in funding the project, as other sources attribute the construction to a J.O. Richardson of Peckham. The venue initially hosted orchestral and choral works and some of the 20th century's most famous musical performers appeared there, such as Dame Clara Butt and Percy Grainger. Restoration During the 1980s the Halls were saved from demolition via the support of local businesses and the community. Extensive renovation and restoration followed and the Halls fully reopened in 1991. Blackheath Halls are now a wholly owned subsidiary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
