About Sarah Francis
Born 1938. Sarah Francis is a British musician, oboist and editor.
Sarah Janet Francis (born 11 January 1938) is a British oboist known for her "refined" chamber music work.
A reviewer in The Times praises her performance of Britten's Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for unaccompanied oboe in 1963 at the Wigmore Hall in London, writing that her technique was adequate for the work's "ruthless test", although some of the score's detail was lost, and praising her rendition of the "languorous" Narcissus and her "judicious" use of vibrato throughout the concert.
Source Howard Pollack. Samuel Barber: His Life and Legacy (University of Illinois Press; 2023) , Project Muse 109905
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British musician
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Sarah Francis was born on 11 January 1938 in London.
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Sarah Francis is a musician, oboist and editor.
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