On the 13th. October
Honorary member and Past President Colin Freeman gave a most interesting talk about Music and Humanity
both at Teacher Training College and later on with the Open Uni- versity, so I was keen to hear Colin’s views.
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I I
first met Colin many years ago in his shop as I ordered music for
school and through this connection we got to know one another quite well albeit on a fairly superficial level.
t was only after Colin had intro- duced me to Rotary that we got to
know a bit more about each other and we discovered that we had very similar broad tastes in music ,we both had aged parents that we looked after and things of that nature. The one thing that we never had time for was a deep discussion about music.
O
n the 13th. October PP Colin was invited to talk to the club and I
was extremely interested in hearing him talk about the influence of music on humanity. I had studied the subject
his subject can be one
for the academic or the music student and is not always everyone’s cup of tea but Collin’s delivery was spot on. He was interesting ,insightful and thought provoking as he looked back in time and explained how music had influenced and been influenced by man. How art, literature, fashion and architecture had all developed and interacted with one another. How re- ligion had influenced music, the position of the musician/composer in society and how all of these affected man.
I
t is always a pleasure to hear a fellow Rotarian talk and as I have
said on many occasions this year I always know when a speaker has engaged the club members’ interest from the quality of the questions from the floor. This was one such occasion and Colin fielded all the questions with great aplomb.
W
ell done and Thank You Past President and friend Colin Freeman.
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