Prof Michael Allis on exploring the legacy of music critic Herbert Thompson

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In his 50 years as chief music critic for The Yorkshire Post between 1886 and 1936, Herbert Thompson certainly witnessed a great deal of change.

He covered the Leeds Festivals and saw the advent of gramophone recordings, however he was less thrilled by the arrival of jazz, which would become the popular music of the Twenties and Thirties. All this and much more is covered a new book based on Thompson’s handwritten memoir and diaries, scrapbooks, anotated scores, photographs and correspondence which he bequeathed to the Brotherton Collections at the University of Leeds Library.

He’s not a fan of performing opera in Italian, which was a thing in the late 19th century even if it was originally written in German, he says of The Flying Dutchman it just doesn’t work.

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