Sara Rebecca Platt (nee Stein) <\/strong>\u2013 A renowned concert pianist, Sara Stein came to Hove as a young girl of five in 1917. She began piano lessons at an early age and from the age of eight she was performing at competitions in London. In 1923, she secured a free place at Brighton & Hove High School for Girls, and by then she was being taught by Miss Marian Mennich, a name well-known in the Brighton area. Sara continued to progress, gaining honours in examinations and winning prizes in the Brighton and London Music Festivals for her piano playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sara\u2019s musical prowess was being recognised and in 1929, aged 17, she won the Elizabeth Stokes scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London. During the 1930s, Sara won many prizes and played at prestigious concerts whilst continuing to live at home with her mother in Hove and travel to London to study. She received the Royal Academy of Music Certificate of Merit with Distinction in 1931-2 (the highest award at the Academy). On 15 October 1935, she gave a solo recital at the Wigmore Hall for which she received excellent press reviews, including one in the Jewish Chronicle<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By this time she had met her future husband, Maurice Leon Platt, at a social function in London. They were married on 22 December 1935 at Middle Street Synagogue with a young Rabbi Fabricant officiating. They went to live near Slough, where Maurice was a GP. Sara played twice with Sir Henry Wood at the Promenade Concerts, which were then held at the Queen\u2019s Hall, Langham Place in London\u2019s West End. Sara moved back to Hove in 1947 with her family when Maurice set up in GP partnership with Dr Isidore Myers. Their partnership was to last until Maurice\u2019s death in 1966.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sara gave some concerts in Hove using her married name, but these were very few and far between. She played more for her own and her family\u2019s pleasure. Her children\u2019s recollections of this time are of hearing their mother playing the piano every evening while they were falling asleep. She gave a concert at the Hotel Metropole in aid of the Friends of Magen David Adom ambulance fund, and also found time to be president of the Women\u2019s B\u2019nai Brith lodge in 1952. In later years, she played for her own and her family\u2019s pleasure but they have only a very few recordings of her playing. Her last public performance was a charity concert given in July 1979 in aid of WIZO. She died on 22 January 1983 and was buried next to Maurice in Bear Road (Meadow View) cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am delighted to say that I was unaware that Sara\u2019s daughter reads our website, and so she was willing to send me a lovely photo of her mother \u2013 Thank you Eleanor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sarah Rebecca Stein Sara Rebecca Platt (nee Stein) \u2013 A renowned concert pianist, Sara Stein came to Hove as a young girl of five in 1917. She began piano lessons at an early age and from the age of eight she was performing at competitions in London. 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