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Paul Dawson-Bowling
Writer/Lecturer
Paul Dawson-Bowling is a kind of
polymath. He studied classics at school
and philosophy at Oxford, and joined
the Civil Service before beginning, at
29, to train as a doctor of medicine. He
developed an early interest in Potassium
Metabolism, but for almost 30 years was
a family doctor at Faversham, East Kent.
He has had a lifelong love of Wagner. In
1958 as a schoolboy, he bicycled across
Europe to Bayreuth for the Ring and the
other great works of Wagner’s maturity,
Tristan, Die Meistersinger and Parsifal.
For 20 years he has been a principal
reviewer of stage performances and
recordings for Wagner News, the
journal of the English Wagner Society.
His ‘Paul Dawson-Bowling Lecture’
is an annual landmark event in the
Society’s London Calendar. He has
contributed to the journals of the Wagner
Societies in North America and to the
journal of Seattle Opera. He has also
published articles on Bruckner, notably
an analysis of the thematic and tonal unity
in Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony; and
is working on a book, Everyone Needs
Wagner (The Wagner Experience And
Its Meaning to Us).
He is married to the harpsichordist
Elizabeth de la Porte.
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