Maestros and their motor cars (49): Brain’s death
OrchestrasIt was a Triumph TR2 that the great horn virtuoso Dennis Brain was driving home at 6am on Sunday 1 September 1957 when the car spun off the road in wet weather near Hatfield in Hertfordshire. Brain, 36, died instantly.
He had played the night before in the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival.
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