She has won the Oscar for Best Actress twice, the first for her role in the film Women in Love (1970) and the second for her role in the romantic comedy film A Touch of Class (1973).
In 1971 British Broadcasting Corporation's produced a biography of Queen Elizabeth I, “Elizabeth R” in six episodes. Over the course of the series Jackson had to age from teenage princess to elderly queen.
Glenda Jackson was elected as the Labour Party MP in the 1992 general election. She stood down at the 2015 general election and in 2016 returned to acting with stunning results.
Albert van Nierop - a dancer with Ballet Rambert, London: “Ghost Dances” & “Sergeant Early's Dream” and roles with dance companies in Netherlands and Switzerland.
The Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (1960) written for 52 strings and later the St Luke Passion brought Penderecki great recognition in the world.
The Devils of Loudun (1969), based on a book by Aldous Huxley were staged all over the world. Parts of this music were used on the soundtrack to the film The Exorcist (1973). Penderecki’s compositions featured in other films too: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980), David Lynch’s Wild at Heart (1990), Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006) and Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010).
Penderecki was rector of the Kraków Academy (1972-87), and taught at Yale University (1973-78).
A Polish girl with long braids, Anna was eleven years old when the Second World War exploded in 1939, vanquishing her dreams of becoming an actress.
She was often hungry, wore wooden clogs even in the middle of winter, wrapped herself in coats made from old blankets, and feared extermination by Nazis at any time.
Since 1946 Anna Lutosławska played over one hundred leading roles in plays by William Shakespeare, Berthold Brecht, Juliusz Słowacki in the most important Polish theatres as well as staged her own adaptations from Thomas Mann and others.
Multiple awards, film roles and books followed.
Anna Lutosławska, an actress 1927 -2022
British-Indian author of “Elephants with Headlights”,"The Seduction of Silence" and "There, Where the Pepper Grows". She is also an Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, where she’s the founding director of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.
The list of his compositions, which were played in top-tier concert halls including BBC Proms by most famous orchestras in the world is long indeed: the Cello Concerto of 1968–70 for Rostropovich and the Royal Philharmonic Society, the Third Symphony in 1983, Chain 2 for Anne-Sophie Mutter, Piano Concerto for Krystian Zimerman.....
During the 1930s Brandt published monographs The English at Home (1932) and A Night in London (1932) in addition to working for Picture Post, Lilliput, Weekly Illustrated, and Verve. During the Second World War he also worked as a staff photographer for the British Home Office, documenting suffering of Londoners through German bombing raids. After the war, Brandt photographed landscapes, many portraits and began creating images of the female nude.
Brandt exhibited his photography in very prestigious galleries & museums and published books with those images. Bill Brandt became a photographers’ photographer of profound importance.
“Thank you for your wonderful photograph, I will treasure it”
The Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome both in London, the Senedd in Cardiff & the European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg.
Sir George Martin, a record producer, arranger and musician. He was often referred to as the "Fifth Beatle" due to his critical involvement on each of the Beatles' original albums.
Most of the Beatles' orchestral arrangements and instrumentation were written or performed by George Martin.
Bruce Michelson is a professor of modern and contemporary dance at Italy’s National Academy of Dance in Rome, where he teaches Cunningham, contemporary repertoire and improvisational strategies. Former dancer with Nederlands Dans Theater, Geneva Ballet, Ballet Rambert, Hamburg Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. Balletmaster for Gulbenkian Ballet (Portugal) and Ballett Zürich (Switzerland).
Dame Marina Warner is an English novelist, historian and mythographer.
A distinguished academic: a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, Professor, All Souls College, Oxford; since 2017 a president of the Royal Society of Literature.
Marina Warner’s list of publications is very long indeed, so here are just samples: Inventory of a Life Mislaid (March 4th, 2021) Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art and Artists (2018) Scheherazade’s Children. Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights (2013) From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and their Tellers (1994)
Scientist
A Chair of Cancer Research UK
a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
Helaine Blumenfeld has created more than 90 sculptures for private and public clients.
Her sculptures were shown at more than 70 exhibitions worldwide including Pietrasanta, Oslo, Salisbury Cathedral, New York, Holland…
Lindsay Anderson was a British film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and inspirational personality with the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave. His “If…” won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1969 and it was Malcolm McDowell's cinematic debut. “O Lucky Man” followed this film with music by Alan Price and “Britannia Hospital” (1982).
Anderson was also an important British theatre director. He was long associated with London's Royal Court Theatre, where he was directing premiere productions of plays by David Storey, among others.
Composer and charity worker supporting children in war zones (the Balkans during the Bosnian War, Chechnya and in the current Syrian conflict) using Music Therapy techniques.
Estela Merlos is an independent dance performer, teacher and choreographer based in London. Her background in ballet, contemporary dance and flamenco are an ongoing influence in her personal practice and movement research.
See the richness of Estela Merlos range as it is very special
A photographic session was performed in The City of London, next to Lloyd's building, which was designed by Lord Richard Rogers.
This portrait of an American composer John Cage was taken at the end of his concert at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam probably in 1978.
The piece (“Inlets”?) was played by tenderly pouring flow of water into and out of conch shells. This delicately glugging sound was amplified by several speakers. The result was gentle and mesmerising. As you can imagine, the lighting was also low, not sufficient for crisp photography.
I felt that it was perfectly in tune with the nature of John Cage, who’s music, including sound created for modern dance performances (Fielding Sixes) was familiar to me for some years. And books, like “For the Birds”, are ever so present in my library. John Cage was unique in his un-diminished influence on many creative composers, artists, thinkers since 1950-ties, including myself.
John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. Peel is most renowned for promoting musicians from in a multitude of genres, including pop, dub reggae, punk rock and post-punk, electronic music and dance music, indie rock, extreme metal, and British hip hop. Regular "Peel sessions", usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios and often provided the first major national coverage to bands that would later achieve fame.
see website: Actor & writer as it is beyond me to summarise Simon’s activities in a few, short sentences
Grażyna Lutosławska is a radio journalist, author of theatre plays, audio dramas, children's books, essays for literary magazines and song poems and also hosts cultural events. Lutosławska was honoured with the title „Master of the Polish language“. Her debut “Leon i kotka, czyli jak rozumieć mowę zegara” was distinguished with the IBBY award of the Polish IBBY section and placed on The White Raven List by the International Youth Library in 2004. Recently Grazyna Lutoslawska has published a number of books both for children and adults and was recently commissioned to write her third play for stage.
Andrzej Wajda was a Polish film and theatre director. Wajda received so many awards that I can only list a few here: an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards.
He directed many hugely inspiring films in history: "Canal", "Man of Marble", "Katyn" and many, many others
Krystyna Zachwatowicz, a prolific stage designer, worked in many Polish theatres, where she collaborated with outstanding directors: Konrad Swinarski, Jerzy Jarocki, Jerzy Krasowski, Krystyna Skuszanka, Andrzej Wajda. She has also worked for theatres abroad, in Paris, Buenos Aires, Moscow, Germany, Zurich, Ljubljana, New Haven in the United States, Trieste, Tel Aviv and Tokyo. In total, she created more than 150 sets and costume designs.
Krystyna Zachwatowicz was also involved in social and political activities. From 1980 she participated in the work of the Mazowsze Region of NSZZ "Solidarność".
And in free Poland, together with Andrzej Wajda, she founded the Centre of Japanese Art and Technology "Manggha" in Krakow.
A Polish poet and a recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1996/szymborska/poetry/
Sir Anthony Caro (1924 –2013) was an English abstract sculptor. He was seen as the greatest British sculptor of his generation. Since the 1950s, Caro's work has been shown in museums and galleries worldwide Caro also collaborated with architects, like Frank Gehry and Norman Foster.
Tadeusz Kantor is best known as distinctive figure of 20th century theatre, stage-designer, creator of his own theatre group Cricot 2 and of plays streaming from the well of Polish poetry of Galician origin. He often participated directly in his shows, acting as a master of ceremonies. Tadeusz Kantor’s theatre productions like: The Dead Class (1975), Wielopole, Wielopole (1980), I Shall Never Return Here (1988) and Today is My Birthday (1991) had a profound impact on creative scene well beyond his base in Krakow.
But he was also a painter, who was always in tune with current developments in art: Tachisme, Collage, Happening, Surrealism, Informel Art, Dada.
Popper has a performing career in the worlds of music, theatre and dance. Popper’s performance work includes dancing with Ballet Rambert, Second Stride and the Rosemary Butcher Company.
Michael Popper has choreographed and directed work for The Classical Opera Company, Tanz Forum, The Icelandic Ballet, Scottish Dance Theatre, The Lyceum Edinburgh, The Royal National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Welsh National Opera, De Vlaamse Opera, Schauspiel Bonn and other companies in Europe.
