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RESEARCH ARTICLE - Master Harry Wood at the Falcon Cliff by Maurice Powell

27 Feb 2015


‘Harry Wood’s first visit to the Isle of Man took place in the summer of 1884, when, at the age of 15, he performed a virtuoso violin piece at a concert at the Falcon Cliff. He could not have imagined that just two years after this seemingly inauspicious playing engagement, he would return to the Island at the commencement of a distinguished fifty year career, initially as a violin teacher and orchestra leader, and ultimately as the most popular and successful musical director in the story of the Island’s entertainment industry’. 
 
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