Assheton Gorton School House 1947-49 Jeremy Hardwick SEDBERGH SCHOOL MEDIA AND Ian Maclean Studied architecture at Cambridge and fine art at the Slade. After designing about 50 TV plays he Lupton House 1951-56 Powell House 1941-44 turned to art directing films. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Actor. Colin Blakely Direction for the film The French Lieutenant’s Woman and was the BAFTA nominated art director John Dow PERFORMING ARTS TIMELINE Horace Bedwell Charles Bardsley Herbert Trotter Donald Mather John Counsell Lupton House for Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film Blowup. After his retirement he wrote and illustrated School House 1878-82 Sedgwick House 1890-91 Day Boy 1894-95 Hart House 1913-18 Winder House 1918-23 Evans House 1930-34 1944-48 children’s books. Gorton credited his inspiration for design to the time he spent in Sedbergh and From the very first recorded OS to take up a career on the stage, the Lake District as a child. His father was Winder housemaster and chaplain at Sedbergh. EJR Laurence (E 1862-63), through the decades and into the 21st century, OSs have consistently chosen to pursue successful Reginald Lawrence Arthur Ferguson David Holmes William Wanklyn Geoffrey Rotheray Tom Pevsner John Clifford careers across all aspects of the performing arts. The list below John Arden Professor David Gwilt MBE 1862-63 School House 1880-84 Mr Ainslie’s 1893-94 Evans House 1904-07 Hart House 1919-22 Sedgwick House 1940-44 Hart House 1941-46 provides an anecdotal snapshot of many of these, some of whom Hart House 1944 -49 Powell House 1946-51 From the 1920’s until the 1970’s Rotheray Emigrated from Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime. He In 1948 he joined the Halle Choir as a 2nd Tenor and Arden first gained critical attention for the radio play, The Life of Man in 1956. Gwilt studied music at Cambridge University and was the leader of the have reached national and international fame. Sedbergh is worked in his own engineering business and had served in the British Army before studying modern languages at participated in performances including one of Verdi’s Timothy Birdsall Sergeant Musgrave’s Dance, which deals with the protestors of war and its realities, viola section of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He was a Sir Christopher Bland determined that this tradition should continue. a parallel career as a writer under the pen name Cambridge where he was editor of The Cambridge Review. Went Requiem at the Festival Hall, London under Sir John School House 1949-55 is considered his best work. He is reputed to be one of the great playwrights of the free-lance musician in the fifties and sixties. Became Professor of Music at Lupton House 1951-56 of Dennis Rooke, writing Wild Goose’s Journey in on to work at the Film Finance Corporation. Credits include Barbirolli. Clifford’s musical talents were of great benefit Birdsall received his school colours for Art, and won the Murray George Gwilt post Look Back in Anger era and his radio play Pearl was considered one of the best the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he taught since 1970. He Bland was both Deputy Chairman of the Independent the 1930’s as well as seven comic volumes. He assistant director on The Ladykillers and The Longest Day and during his National Service after which he joined the Craigmile Art Prize and Sterling English Verse Prize. After graduating Powell House 1941-45 for that medium in a Guardian survey. He has written a number of novels including has written music for the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and has Broadcasting Authority from 1972-1979 and Pre 1940’s also wrote articles for Punch magazine and other producer for Dracula. Worked as a producer on every James Bond Hoylake Symphony Orchestra. He became a founder from Cambridge, he appeared on BBC’s That Was The Week That Was Silence Among the Weapons which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and is a conducted that orchestra as well as the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Chairman of its Complaints Review Board. In 1982 periodicals. He authored one West End play film from For Your Eyes Only to GoldenEye. His contribution to the member of the Wirral Symphony Orchestra and retired and contributed to The Sunday Times, Private Eye and The Spectator. He member of the Royal Society of Literature. Hong Kong Sinfonietta. Awarded a Fellowship of the Hong Kong he was appointed non-executive director of LWT plc 1940’s Daddy Wore Velvet Gloves with collaboration from Bond series is acknowledged in the later Bond film Spectre, when Q in 2011 after 25 years as co-principal clarinet. regularly caricatured the then prime minister Harold Macmillan, Academy for Performing Arts after he retired. and became Chairman in 1983 turning it into one of Arnold Ridley who later played the favourite states that he is staying at a hotel named Pevsner. He was included in Harold Wilson, and Lord Beaverbrook, who issued a writ against him. Paul Parker ITV’s most profitable companies. As Chairman of the 1950’s Mark Smith Mr Godfrey in Dad’s Army. the In Memoriam tribute at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015. Sadly he succumbed to leukaemia, aged 27. After his death the BBC Winder House 1975-78 Don Seed BBC Board of Governors from 1996 he led the Evans House 1974-79 made a tribute programme and Bamber Gascoigne organised a Ashutosh Khandekar Paul has composed and recorded Andrew Leitch Sedgwick House 1966-1971 Richard Suart negotiations which secured the funding of the BBC 1960’s As a cameraman and film maker A (Jim) Muir posthumous exhibition of his works in London. Harry Jarman Powell House 1978-83 music that has been published on Lupton House 1972-76 Seed has a business specialising in creating School House 1965-69 through the licence fee and oversaw the creation of for over 20 years, Smith has Simon Slater Powell House 1961-66 Powell House 1979-1983 Editor of Opera Now since TV including BBC, Sky, Channel concept visuals, story boards and illustration for Suart began his career with the English Music BBC Online. After joining BT in 2001 he transformed worked across all genres and shot School House 1972-77 Muir studied Arabic and after five years in book 1970’s Jarman gained a position at the Moving 1997. He was born in India 4, Channel 5, Universal, National Clive Kerfoot clients including ITN News, Heineken and BP. Theatre Company and Opera Factory. He has the organisation by increasing revenues from their new news, documentary and drama. Slater plays the piano, double bass, saxophone, publishing drove to Beirut in 1974 to cover the Robert Hopper Picture Company in London working in and after Sedbergh he honed Geographic and The History Hart House 1969-1974 He has worked on many award winning projects worked for all the major British opera houses wave services such as broadband. Sir Christopher was Best known for his work on Frozen clarinet, guitar and the piano accordion. He is upheavals of a turbulent region. From 1975-90 Muir Powell House 1960-64 1980’s film and TV visual effects. He became his journalism in Hong Kong channel. He started Paul Parker including The Riverside Code for the Port of and been a member of the D’Oyly Carte since knighted for his work in the NHS in 1993. Planet, Planet Earth II and Nature. an award winning composer and has written covered the conflict in Lebanon – probably the only Studied art history at Manchester university. Mike Ross senior visual effects artist at MPC and a and London. While studying Music in 2010 & has composed London Authority. Through collaboration 1988. He has enjoyed a long association with original scores for over 150 productions in all Richard Hobson western correspondent to cover it from start to finish. Assistant keeper and deputy principal keeper in Evans House 1960-65 1990’s supervisor on commercial film shoots. English at Oxford, he was a music for several publishers. He with Creative Director, Diva Opera, made a number of recordings for mediums. Clients have included the Royal Lupton House 1967-1971 After Lebanon, the Gulf war erupted and Muir fine art at Manchester’s Whitworth art gallery. Mike has had a long and successful Some of his work won awards at the choral scholar with New plays guitar, bass, piano, drums, Richard Morrison, Seed has both national and European TV channels and Shakespeare Company, BBC Radio 4, monitored Baghdad radio to provide news and analysis 1979, he joined the Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s career as a graphic designer, 2000’s British Television Advertising Awards. College Choir. He is passionate vocals & programs orchestral & worked on films including appeared at the BBC Proms and other Gala Channel 5 and West End Theatre productions. on Iraq. He joined the Kurds in northern Iraq and management committee and, in 1981, became photographer and film director Jarman then formed Golden Square Post about singing and is a keen synthesised arrangements. Valiant, Oscar winner The Concerts internationally. He is a Vice Slater is a member of the British Academy of stayed with the guerrillas as they held Saddam’s army at director of Bradford art galleries and museums. specialising in the music and Production providing services including tenor as well as an enthusiastic Simon Mallinson Constant Gardener President of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society Composers and Songwriters. bay – continuing to send despatches. As peace took hold 1988, the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust in Leeds entertainment industry both in the UK online editing, commercials, TV visual pianist.