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    DAME FANNY

    Jan 22, 2021 4 minutes
    Editor Erica Worth shares her memories of a piano legend

    eaders of last heard from Dame Fanny Waterman exactly a year ago, in issue 112. She was about to turn 100 and I had the pleasure of three hours in her company, at her home in the suburbs of Leeds. She was full of high spirits and good stories. The prospect of the day itself, on 22 March, seemed to spur her on, and why not? The celebrations at the University of Leeds were due to include a recital from Anna Tsybuleva and Federico Colli, former winners of the Leeds International Piano Competition which

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