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THE Winchester Chamber Music Festival is returning to the city in May.

Gerry Mattock obituary Sally Beamish My friend Gerry Mattock, who has died aged 92, was a pioneer of environmental science whose chemical research contributed to the removal of pollution in waterways across the world. However he was even more remarkable in that he dedicated his retirement, and much of his wealth, to commissioning classical contemporary music – a total of 27 works, including 14 composed by me, many of which were performed and recorded by internationally renowned artists. I had a phone call out of the blue in 1997 from Gerry, who asked me to write a piece for...