Kathleen Merritt
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Kathleen Merritt
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Eva Kathleen Merritt was a British conductor who led her own orchestra from the 1920s into the 1970s. She was best known as a pioneering woman conductor, and for her local music-making in Petersfield, Hampshire. Merritt was born in Petersfield and attended Bedales School and then the Royal College of Music. She joined the Petersfield Festival Orchestra in 1920 as a first desk violinist. She became conductor of the Sheet Choral Society from 1923, and of the Sheet Orchestra from 1924. From 1927 sh
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English musician and conductor (1901-1985)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Merritt
date created:
2023-11-22T09:34:47Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T02:13:18Z
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