Summary
THERE is a calmness to Clive Jenkins' home. The rural location, deep in the South Hams village of Wembury, has something to do with the tranquillity, as does the welltended garden and the neat and comfortable interior of the house.
But the man himself seems to set the tone for what is around him: he exudes calm in his soft and considered speech.See the full content of this document
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The source of that, perhaps, is the classical music which has been a part of his life for nearly 70 years.
The composer and retired music teacher doesn't present as somebody who was once wild and has been civilised by rhythmic melody.He does, though, believe in a variation of the idea that music has charms to soothe a savage breast.This is what he says about the importance of music."Sport gets an awful lot of publicity funding and an awful lot of sport is concerned, to a degree with conflict," he says."We need less ...See the full content of this document
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