MAKERS OF MUSIC
COMPOSERS AND CONDUCTORS The last of a series of lectures in aid of the children's department of the Canterbury Public Library was given last night by Mr Victor C. Peters, who described composers and conductors he had met in his travels. Miss E. A. Chaplin introduced the speaker, who dealt with the idiosyncracies of men of the status of Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Henry Wood, Dr. Adrian Bolt, Sir Landon Ronald, and Mr Vaughan Williams. The latter, he said, was likely to do still greater work. He had written some fascinating arrangements of folk-songs and displayed a great fondness of descants. The modern composer knew no laws, end Williams was regarded as the soundest and sanest of the moderns. .._.«.« During the evening members of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church choir sang examples of celebrated arrangements.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21236, 7 August 1934, Page 7
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