Tony Cunnane's Early Years 1935-53

The graphic on the right shows Dr Llifon Hughes Jones supervising the SGS string quartet. Actually this was a set-up for an article about ‘Your School’ published on 13 March 1952 in the Manchester Evening News. Actually there was no string quartet. The photographer arrived at short notice and so Dr Jones grabbed the first four members of the orchestra he could find and, behold, a string quartet was formed there and then.



Members of the school orchestra posing in a non-conventional string quartet formation are, from left to right, Tony Cunnane and Michael Altman (violins), Raphael Gonski (cello) and Edward White (viola). I believe the violist and the cellist swapped positions because the photographer thought it looked better that way!


Click on the lower graphic to read what I wrote in my diary that day about this event.