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Lena Wood played with a number of ensembles during her performing career including the
Birmingham Quartet, the Midlands Wireless Orchestra, the Alex Cohen Quartet, the London Pianoforte Quartet, the Ionian String Quartet, the Catterall String Quartet, Johan Hoch's Chamber Orchestra and the Clifford
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Lena Wood was born in
Croston, near Chorley, Lancashire, the only surviving child of Colin Wood, a marine engineer and his wife Elizabeth. The family moved to Stourbridge in the early 1900s, where in 1930 Lena married Frank Clifford, but continued to use her family name of Wood. She was a pupil of
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In the 1930s Wood had her own radio slot on the
Midland Programme when, for twenty to thirty minutes, she would play a violin or viola programme. In September 1932 she performed a violin recital composed of the Havanaise by Saint-Saens, Paganini's Perpetuum Mobile and
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in London. The
Musical Times critic remarked on Wood's fine playing of the Ballade for Viola and String Orchestra and for her ensemble playing during the Introduction and Allegro by Elgar. Wall's Ballade was performed once more in Manchester on 10 December 1935.
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in London at a concert in aid of the ISM Benevolent Fund. Kathleen Cooper (piano), Audrey
Caterall (violin), Lena Wood (viola) and Edith Lake (cello) played Faure's Quartet in C minor and the viola version of Brahms' Clarinet Trio.
183:'s Peter Pan Suite. The quartet were composed of Alex Cohen (1st Violin); Rowland Sirrell (2nd Violin); Lena Wood (Viola); Haydn York (Violoncello). In February 1932 the quartet gave the first broadcast performances of
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In May 1936 on BBC Radio, the
Birmingham Ladies' String Quartet, composed of Muriel Tookey, Dorothy Hemming, Lena Wood and Elsa Tookey, gave the first broadcast performances of William Alwyn's String Quartet No.10
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By the late 20s, Wood was performing on the radio. In 1928, in a
Military Band Programme with the City of Birmingham Police Band, alongside the contralto Winifred Payne, she performed the Second Violin Suite by
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She was a recitalist on the violin as well as the viola and performed with the tenor, Arthur Jordan in 1920. In 1921 she was the musical director of the cinema orchestra at The
Olympia in Wordsley.
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critic W.R. Anderson, who described the piece as placing immense demands on the players, but describes Wood's and the pianist Doris
Watkins' playing, as "well-attuned to the music's moods".
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and was a formidable teacher. Her pupil Howard Breakspear, principal viola of Opera North, referred to her as "The Dragon", stating she was, "as terrifying as she was inspirational".
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114:, (October 4, 1899 – September 23, 1982), was a British violist with the Birmingham Philharmonic String Orchestra and the Birmingham Ladies' String Quartet. She was a pupil of
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In May 1935 Wood performed the Handel-Casadeus Viola Concerto with the Birmingham Philharmonic String Orchestra under Johan Hock.
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In 1939 Wood played the Elgar Cello Concerto, arranged for viola by Lionel Tertis, with the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra.
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403:"Royal Academy of Music: Metropolitan Examination, Christmas 1919".
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