After 50 years, the recital hall in the Music Department has been renamed ‘The Ernest Read Hall’ in memory of Queenswood’s most famous Director of Music – in post from 1920 until 1965. Many will remember the Ernest Read children’s concerts, but Ernest Read was also a pioneer of the youth orchestra movement and a champion of national musical education, building Queenswood into a centre of excellence. Read worked at Queenswood until he was 86 and laid the foundation stone of the Music Department in 1965. We celebrated the re-dedication with a concert for parents and members of Ernest Read’s family, followed by speeches from Mrs Edgar, Mr Dobson and Ernest Read’s grand-daughter, who unveiled the new brass dedication plaque.

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