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Title: Dennis Marks
Post by Administrator on Apr 3^rd, 2015, 3:26pm

Dennis Marks, BBC TV Head of Music 1988 to 1993 has died.

Tony Hall, BBC DG, "Dennis Marks' immense belief in, and commitment to, serious classical music and opera made him an inspiration to me and many, many others. He made an enormous contribution to the BBC and to the musical life of the nation."

Alan Davey, Controller BBC Radio 3. "Dennis Marks' passion for music shone through in everything he did. He was a wonderful, inspiring and generous man who did so much to bring music to wider audiences. We shall miss him and our thoughts are with his wife and family."

Title: Re: Dennis Marks
Post by Administrator on Apr 3^rd, 2015, 3:32pm

This is from "Slipped Disc".

The music world in London and beyond has been shocked by the death last night of Dennis Marks, former head of music at BBC Television and subsequently general director of English National Opera. Dennis was 66.

At the BBC he was the last believer in serious music before the great Birtian dumbing down of the early 1990s. At ENO, he inherited the deficit aftermath of a successful regime and was unable to set a new direction for a company with a weak board and an ambivalent funding authority.

He went on to make some fascinating documentaries, mostly for radio.

He was a boundless enthusiast for new music and opera.

Our sympathies to his wife, Sally Groves, and the family.