Her husband, violinist Sanford Allen, rehearses Bach on his Stradivarius next door, for a recital upstate, where they have a country house. They married in 1969, after meeting when she was a guide at the Lincoln Center, and he the first African-American to join the New York Philharmonic. He asked me to lunch, then sent a huge bunch of roses to me in London, ... I was only supporting actress. Others thought the lead, Felicity Kendal, should have won.
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