Un nesso tra Mike Westbrook e Mary Quant? C'è, e lo rammenta Paul Kelly in seguito alla recente scomparsa della geniale stilista: "I am sad to hear that Mary Quant has died. I discovered a fascinating trail to her in 2018 when I staged the Parry 100 Festival commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Bournemouth-born composer Sir Hubert Parry, best known for the much-loved ‘Jerusalem’. The Festival programme included Mike Westbrook’s Glad Day - The Westbrook Blake a work I have long-loved. The connection to Parry was tenuous and in the run-up to the performance I did some research to see if I could establish anything a little more credible than just Jerusalem with words by Blake and which is not even in Westbrook’s wonderful amalgam of Blake’s writing. Quite unexpectedly research turned up a glorious trail that led from Parry right to Mary Quant’s front door (as it were). Hubert Parry and his wife had two daughters and the younger of those, Gwendoline, married a celebrated Irish Baritone, Harry Plunkett Greene who had sung the title role in Parry’s opera 'Job', amongst other things. Harry and Gwendoline had three children: Richard, David, and Olivia who in the 1920s became part of that set known as the ‘Bright Young Things’. The three children periodically would go to New York to ‘have their trousers altered’ what that’s a euphemism for I’m not quite sure. There they frequented the Harlem Jazz Clubs and fell in love with jazz and both Richard and David themselves became jazz musicians and jazz composers, though of what calibre, I know not. Richard Plunkett Greene married Elizabeth and they had one son, Alexander, who in the 1950s met and married the now late lamented fashion designer Mary Quant. So, here we have fragments of family, history, story and connecting cultures across the decades and centuries. In my on-stage introduction to The Westbrook Blake - which by the way was terrific - I concluded by saying that both Quant and Westbrook had each created small cultural revolutions in that fervent period that was the 1960s. Health and happiness to Mike Westbrook and RIP Mary Quant."