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More Than Music

This is the third part of a joint autobiographical trilogy based on the letters and diaries of two professional singers Christopher Davies and Barbara Kendall-Davies. It also relates to their young son, Giles and his blossoming career as a singer. There is a good deal of music, of course but also many unexpected and divergent paths as well, including a major Hollywood movie.

Barbara Kendall-Davies

The author, Barbara Kendall-Davies, was born in Birmingham and first studied Costume design at the Birmingham College of Art. In 1961 she won a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to study singing. Here she met Baritone Christopher Davies and they married in 1963. Subsequently, their professional careers ran in parallel. Barbara’s writing career began in 1995 with a monograph of the French 19th century signer, Pauline Viardot Garcia and led to a two-volume biography of the singer. In 2019 her novels, Truth Will Find a Way and Worlds Within Worlds, were published by Austin Macauley. The first volume of a joint autobiographical trilogy was published as Love and Music in 2020 and On with the Show in 2021. More than Music completes the trilogy.

Austin Macauley Publishers