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Destruction during Renovation - the Cutty Sark Having recently been persuaded to publish obituary comments about the scarcely unexpected death of Rostropovich at 80 (Musical Pointers had not previously embarked on previews and obituaries) I feel prompted to write something about the firing to near destruction of the Cutty Sark in Greenwich. From a musical point of view, this tragedy was a reminder of an innovative series held aboard ship, and I take this opportunity to reproduce below my report of that pioneering event by Psappha, a season of concerts about the Sea which they gave on the Cutty Sark in September 1994 - hawling a grand piano down into the ship for the purpose!
Yesterday it felt like a death of a close relative. We live close to the great Tea Clipper, which is berthed alongside Trinity College of Music in its new grand historic home, built by Wren, Webb and Vanbrugh. We had walked past the Cutty Sark (shrouded in But a day on, we have now learned that all is not positively lost; being an iron ship, not everything was reduced to a charred mess, and many of its important artifacts had been removed to safe storage during the work in progress. *Musical Pointers joins the nation's prayers for a positive outcome from this disaster. Peter Grahame Woolf * Chris Livett, the chairman of Cutty Sark Enterprises, said that the ship would be restored to better than her condition before the fire, “We are determined to put it back together.”
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