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| John Joubert lived in the same Hull flat as Philip Larkin | John Joubert lived in the same Hull flat as Philip Larkin |
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| I am very interested to hear that Philip Larkin’s flat is being honoured with a blue plaque (Report, 17 July). | I am very interested to hear that Philip Larkin’s flat is being honoured with a blue plaque (Report, 17 July). |
| What people should also know is that the composer John Joubert lived in this same flat in the 1960s when a lecturer in music at Hull University and is a composer of 160 works including two symphonies, violin, piano, cello, oboe and bassoon concertos, and seven operas. He has a major choral output including Christmas carols. | What people should also know is that the composer John Joubert lived in this same flat in the 1960s when a lecturer in music at Hull University and is a composer of 160 works including two symphonies, violin, piano, cello, oboe and bassoon concertos, and seven operas. He has a major choral output including Christmas carols. |
| His most famous carol is Torches, which was written for his wife who was teaching at a school in Hull. Joubert is 90 and still composing. I would like to suggest that another blue plaque be added to the same building to celebrate its other famous inhabitant.Linda GreshamBirmingham | His most famous carol is Torches, which was written for his wife who was teaching at a school in Hull. Joubert is 90 and still composing. I would like to suggest that another blue plaque be added to the same building to celebrate its other famous inhabitant.Linda GreshamBirmingham |
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