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Died. John Christie, 80, a onetime Eton science master who devoted his million-dollar inheritance to founding the Glyndebourne Opera (in 1934) on his Sussex estate, turned it into a musical mecca where Britain's bluebloods enjoyed summer festivals of mostly Mozart; at Glyndebourne, England...
...chamber, piano and organ music, anthems and orchestral pieces, who put poems to music (his most popular: from Masefield's Sea-Fever) but shied away from longer works because "you must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony"; after a long illness; in Washington, Sussex, England...
Moved by his sympathy and a desire "to bring first-rate opera to this country,'' John Christie of Sussex founded (in 1934) the only privately owned Opera in England. Since then, Christie's little, 800-seat
Last week mid-afternoon travelers in London's Victoria Station recognized the signs of a new season when they saw a crowd in formal dress scurrying to catch the 3:45 for Lewes, Sussex, 54 miles away...
Seeking Perfection. Founder Christie, a onetime Eton science master, became fascinated with opera after inheriting $1,329,000 and 10,000 acres of Sussex-Devonshire real estate and subsequently marrying Singer Audrey Mildmay. From the first, he was frankly "seeking perfection"-and he paid to get it. For the posts of conductor, producer, and general manager, he imported a trio of top talents...