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When asked to help organise a Jewish Music Festival in London in 1983, Geraldine Auerbach MBE had no idea it would change her life. What began as a favour became a mission. Importing and nurturing specialist ensembles, unearthing old and commissioning new works and working with artists, venues and community leaders, she presented Jewish music in art galleries, concert halls, synagogues and churches and iconic spaces like Canterbury Cathedral, the Millennium Dome and Trafalgar Square. She worked with professors, scholars and figures such as Yehudi Menuhin and Valerie Solti to found the Jewish Music Institute at the University of London. She brings her childhood in separatist South Africa vividly to life. Alert to new possibilities, she created a foundation for her late son-in-law, guitarist Bert Jansch, shepherded guitars around the world and transformed the isolation of lockdown into global online gatherings for Jewish music scholars and South African expats as well as gardening projects with her grandchildren. This is the engaging memoir of how one person's vision, tenacity and resilience despite moments of despair and personal sadness, can make extraordinary things happen.