Catherine Coldstream
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329 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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I mean, I did grow up in what, you know, we call it a sort of arty household.
It's quite bohemian.
And yeah, there was a big age gap between my parents.
So I'd grown up in a very sort of expressive kind of family.
I loved ballet, I loved art, I loved poetry, I loved music.
I was very emotional.
Yeah, I mean, people couldn't understand it when I suddenly went really kind of pious and, you know, kind of quite penitential after my father's death.
I think what it was, was that when my dad died, I was 24.
And he had been going downhill in a really kind of very, a very, very painful decline that lasted four years.
So from the age of about 20, I'd been going through
An awful lot of sort of angst and, you know, the word trauma is overused.
But, you know, I'd been going through a very unhappy time, my family more or less disintegrated.
And I think I needed something radical.
I was looking for something radical.
And, you know, I was looking for it through music at first.
I was really into the whole kind of experimental music stuff.
Stockhausen, John Cage, Boulez and all this sort of stuff.
So I probably always had slightly extreme tendencies.
When the kind of hammer blow of bereavement came, I was utterly thrown and
completely bereft, obviously, and devastated.
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