Conductor Sir Colin Davis has died at the age of 85, the London Symphony Orchestra has announced. Surrey-born Sir Colin made his debut with the orchestra in 1959 and was its longest serving principal ...

Sir Colin Davis, president of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), has died at the age of 85. In a statement, the LSO said: "Sir Colin first conducted the LSO in 1959 and became principal conductor in ...

And yet despite the support of such luminaries as the publisher Victor Gollancz, whose daughter Livia played the horn for COG, Colin had no conducting post until 1957, when he was already thirty.