Jack Phipps obituary

Farsighted champion of music and theatreHigh-quality work in the performing arts frequently depends on a combination of private enterprise and public support. But the need for a dynamically entrepreneurial approach remains a constant, and that is what Jack Phipps, who has died aged 84, brought to classical music and the theatrical world.Born in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, where his father was a tobacco farmer, Jack was educated in Johannesburg and spent a term at Harrow school, north-west ...

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