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John Drummond (arts administrator)
Sir John Richard Gray Drummond CBE (25 November 1934 – 6 September 2006) was an English arts administrator who spent most of his career at the BBC. He was described as "one of the most formidable figures in the arts world of the UK for 40 years".〔Milnes, R. "Obituary: Sir John Drummond". ''Opera'', November 2006, pp. 1311-1312.〕
== Early life and career ==
Drummond was born in London, the son of a master mariner in the British India line and an Australian ''lieder'' singer. He spent much of his childhood in Bournemouth, spending hours in the public library absorbing all he could on creative arts, and also attending concerts by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He was educated at Canford School and, after his National Service in the Navy (where he studied Russian), read History at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1955 to 1958. At Cambridge he organised cabarets for the Footlights Society and in 1956 wrote a musical about Regency Brighton titled ''The First Resort''.〔(The Daily Telegraph obituary ) 8 September 2006, accessed 24 January 2014〕 His contemporaries included Derek Jacobi, Peter Cook, Michael Frayn and Ian McKellen,〔 and he was also a member of the Marlowe Society, performing in Christopher Marlowe's ''Edward II'', which was broadcast on the Third Programme in 1958 with Jacobi in the title role. That year he had already gained a BBC general traineeship,〔Carpenter, p. 316〕 and his early career at the BBC was as a foreign correspondent (Drummond spoke fluent French and Russian). In 1961 he went with Richard Dimbleby, Robin Day and David Attenborough to make a series of documentary films in the Soviet Union, selected with his Russian language skills in mind. Later that year he began a two-year assignment for news and current affairs in Paris as assistant to Robin Scott.〔
In 1964 he was part of David Attenborough's launch team for BBC2, and he went on to direct/produce of arts programmes for BBC Television, including a documentary about the Decca recording of the complete Ring Cycle by Wagner ''The Golden Ring'', a biography of singer Kathleen Ferrier, programmes about Diaghilev, a series on architecture ''Spirit of the Age'', and masterclasses by French cellist Paul Tortelier.〔 His interest in ballet and dance was reflected in many of the programmes he produced for the BBC, and he appeared as presenter in many of them.〔(British Film Institute page for John Drummond ), accessed 24 January 2014.〕
Ultimately he became Assistant Head of Music and Arts before becoming director of the Edinburgh International Festival at the end of 1977. Drummond's period at the Festival was particularly successful, and Norman Lebrecht commended him in a tribute for his multi-disciplinary approach in a celebration of 'fin de siècle' Vienna in 1983.〔(Drummond Won Plaudits, Enemies at BBC, Proms: Norman Lebrecht ), accessed 18 January 2014.〕 In his Guardian obituary, Humphrey Burton listed several highlights from his tenure in Edinburgh: operas in 1980 including Peter Maxwell Davies' ''The Lighthouse'', for international theatre 1979 with the Rustaveli Company, Georgia, and 1980 for Bill Bryden's adaptation of the York and Wakefield mystery plays for the National Theatre, and starting a book fair and commissioning the Queen's Hall as a festival chamber music venue.〔(Sir John Drummond, obituary in The Guardian, 8 September 2006 ), accessed 24 January 2014〕
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