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Lord Professor Robert Winston |
‘Fertility peer’ hopes to improve his sax life
FERTILITY expert and TV personality Professor Lord Robert Winston (pictured) is taking the stage tonight (Thursday) – but instead of delivering lectures on reproduction he is picking up his saxophone and joining a band which mixes house music with eastern European Jewish folk music known as Klezmer.
Lord Winston’s daughter Tanya is a DJ in the group Ghetto Plotz and has persuaded her father to come on stage and jam with them.
Lord Winston, 66, who lives in Temple Fortune, has not performed live before and has only been playing the saxophone for five months.
He decided to learn the instrument as part of a BBC documentary called Play It Again, to explore how humans learn music.
He said: “I have to admit the sound I make is still pretty primitive. But I have fallen in love with playing the sax. It is a wonderful instrument, and sounds like the human voice.”
And the draw of appearing on stage with a Klezmer band also holds an attraction for him.
He added: “I love Klezmer – it is very emotional music and although the sax is not traditionally a Klezmer instrument, I think it fits in well.”
The performance will be filmed for the TV show, but Lord Winston says he is not nervous by the thought of having cameras capturing any duff notes. He has been having lessons by leading sax teacher John Harle.
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