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Article: Music men back in tune after 60 years.
- Article from:
- Sunderland Echo (Pennywell, England)
- Article date:
- June 26, 2007
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AFTER 60 years, a top male soloist has been reunited with the man who changed his life - his old music teacher.
As a 12-year-old boy, Rupert Hanson's world changed for ever when teacher Harry White brought in a gramophone and played a piece of classical music for his pupils.
Those few minutes, as a performance of Nimrod by Elgar reverberated around the classroom of James Williams Street School, have always stayed with Mr Hanson, now 71.
Inspired by his teacher, he made a bid to escape from his life in the back streets and tenements of Sunderland's East End.
During the course of the next 60 years, he has gone on to tour the world, ...