RICHARD WORTH relishes the fleeting moment and sense of flow of the late, great saxophonist
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Karl Dallas reviews 'Ewan MacColl: His Life, His Words, His Music'
Ewan MacColl: His Life, His Words, His Music
Peel Hall
University of Salford
3/5
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SALFORD is the “dirty old town” where James Miller — the folksinger better known as Ewan MacColl — was born in January 1915 and it was the scene of this joint celebratory event by the University of Salford and the Working Class Movement Library.
In a packed hall, four readers and a solo singer took the audience through his life and work, in which extracts from his somewhat sanitised autobiography were interspersed with just a few songs.
It was a rather prosaic event, with no drama and precious little of the great man of the theatre’s histrionic impact upon British culture. One could't help wondering what the Theatre Workshop founder might have made of it.
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