Memory Lane 01

I wanted to give you this URL: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-christopher-van-kampen-1233895.html Chris van Kampen was a good friend in the same year as me. We performed together (with the equally famous pianist and music arranger Tony Hymas (in the year before me) and the lesser known Terry O'Brien - violin) on a BBC radio programme in our early days. Chris was a highly skilled cellist. The Obituary doesn't mention the fact that he was also the principal cellist with the National Youth Orchestra of Britain and performed the famous Elgar cello concerto when the orchestra played in Moscow. Tony Hymas was pianist and composer/arranger for Jeff Beck for twenty years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hymas I wish I had had such talent!

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