'Irons' Pot Boiler
by Nigel Dempster, Daily Mail
January 12, 2000
TO CELEBRATE his 70th birthday, which actually falls in March, American maestro Lorin Maazel will be conducting the London Symphony Orchestra at a gala evening at the Barbican in aid of the Sargent Cancer Care for Children.
For the occasion, on February 17, Lorin has especially written The Empty Pot for a children's choir and orchestra, with Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons narrating the piece. This will be followed by Mstislav Rostropovich playing the Dvorak Cello Concerto and conclude with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4, followed by a gala dinner.
The charity, founded in memory of the legendary conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent, who died of cancer in 1967, funds a team of 50 specialist care workers throughout the United Kingdom offering practical and emotional support to children with cancer.