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THREE YOUNG musicians — the Thamyse String Trio — from the BBC Symphony Orchestra —played at a chamber concert recently at the church hail of the Holy Apostles, Pimlico, London, organised by the local branch of the Muscular Dystrophy Group.
Regan Crownley, violin, Heather Birks, viola, and Richard Eade, 'cello, formed the trio in 1979, writes Freda Bruce Lockhart.
They could hardly have chosen a more enjoyable programme for this first concert. It consisted of the longish Mozart Divertimento in E flat, a Beethoven Trio and the less familiar Dohnanyi Serenade in E which delighted many in the audience to whom it was new.
IT IS unusual for the Holy Father to award the Knighthood of St Gregory to a man when he is still only 42. in fact I think Pat Keegan is probably unique in receiving the award so early In his life The reason for the award is also unusual. It comes more commonly to a public figure after a lifetime of labour for the Catholic cause In the affairs of the nation, or In the devoted work within a national Catholic society, hard persevering labour in one place. Pal has been occupied for the last eleven years in a different sort of labour. He was seldom to be found at home. He was a nomad, travelling all over the world with Mgr Joseph Cardijn, often In Rome and sometimes having several individual audiences with the Holy Father.
Vote Liberal
LIBERAL PARTY praise for the Catholic Herald leading article of last week, entitled Christians and the Liberal Party, comes from three members of the Party who are Catholics. In the leader we said that the industrial solutions the party has put forward virtually echo Papal social teaching. Lady Abrahams, widow of the late Sir Sidney Abrahams, KC, herself candidate for Putney, says: "Tories and Socialists stand for two monopolies, the former for that of Big Business, the latter for that of Trade Unionism."