104) Over a ten year period R.O. Morris was a composer as well as a music theorist and teacher. I heard his Sinfonia in C live at the English Music Festival in 2022. The last of the six Canzoni Ricercati for strings (from 1931) is just beautiful. (10/18) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._O._M... #jawiki

104) Musical aspects (esp. classical music) often get short shrift in the more general Wikipedia entries. The "Merry England" entry had a few lines about the Kinks in the "literature and arts" section and that was it - so I added a "music" section (12/20) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_E... #jawiki

103) Kathleen Merritt founded the Petersfield Orchestra in 1927 and conducted it until 1972. She was a friend of Vaughan Williams and championed music by women composers such as Ina Boyle, Ruth Gipps, Dorothy Howell and Elisabeth Lutyens (11/23) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathlee... #jawiki

102) Wilfrid Mellers was at my viva in 1982 (and not overly impressed), but I did have a good conversation with him afterwards. I knew then of his many striking books (including those on pop music and jazz) but didn't know how much music he'd composed. (8/21) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid... #jawiki

Wilfrid Mellers was at my viva in 1982 (and not overly impressed), but I did have a good conversation with him afterwards. I knew then of his many striking books (including those on pop music and jazz) but didn't know how much music he had composed. (8/21) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid... #jawiki

101) Jeffrey Mark, friend of Michael Tippett, was a traumatised soldier, radical composer (think Percy Grainger), folk song collector (who studied with Vaughan Williams and Holst), music librarian, composer of strathspeys and a controversial economist (6/21) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey... #jawiki

100) John Malcolm, composer of (for me) the most characteristic news signature tune of all time, was only an amateur composer. Under his real name John Batt he was a lawyer. Non Stop was composed in 1948 when he was 17 (10/23) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ba... #jawiki www.youtube.com/watch?v=swMD...

99) Basil Maine, organist, teacher of Ian and Peter Fleming, author and music critic (and critic of critics in his 1928 book Behold Those Daniels), narrator at the first performance of Morning Heroes in 1930, composer, and finally, priest. (11/19) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_M... #jawiki

Other memorable productions I've seen include the West End premiere at the Donmar Warehouse in 2000, and (locally to me and with personal connections in the cast) at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury in 2008. Turning optimism on its head, the rooftop finale ''Our Time'' can be totally devastating

Just a quick follow-up on this. Just spotted the pre-order form here - but unfortunately it won't be out in time for Christmas lansdownebooks.com/products/lab...

There were two W. McNaughts, both were editors of The Musical Times. William Gray McNaught, an ardent supporter of tonic sol-fa, and his son William McNaught, the Evening News critic (1933-1939) and editor/author of Novello's short composer biographies (7/22) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William... #jawiki

97) London Repertoire Orchestra. In the mid-1980s I played for a while with the LRO. Not sure if the formidable character of Ruth Gipps comes across in her genial music. I remember the terror as she singled out my guiro playing in The Rite of Spring (10/19) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_... #jawiki

96) Pianist Maria Levinskaya (inspiration for Schlesinger's Madame Sousatzka) was a pupil of Safonov and many other teachers ("some celebrated, others obscure"). She held glamorous musical "at homes" and made child prodigy Harold Rubens her star pupil. (1/24) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_L... #jawiki

95) Robin Legge, the very sociable chief music critic of The Daily Telegraph (1906-1931) worked from an office in Piccadilly where he met "performers, composers, critics, agents, teachers, people with new ideas and people with old grievances". (3/22) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_L... #jawiki

94) Frederick Laurence, impoverished husband of Marie Goossens, composer and early film music pioneer, latterly had to scratch a living out of orchestral management (for Henry Wood) and administration. He slipped a few of his own works into the Proms (10/24) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederi... #jawiki

3) Mabel Lander, pianist and teacher, pupil of Leschetizky, set up a piano school with Moiseiwitsch. Remembered today as the piano teacher of Queen Elizabeth and her sister Margaret, but she also taught Malcolm Sargent, Alan Bush and many others (1/21) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_L... #jawiki

92) Frida Kindler, concert pianist, Busoni pupil and from 1910 wife of Bernard van Dieren. By June 1963, aged 84, she was suffering from dementia so the family sold off her Steinway by putting this notice in The Times. She died in January 1964. (3/24) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_K... #jawiki

It's being reprinted, due to demand. Expensive, but in my opinion, worth every penny
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91) Known to many for his Mr Benn TV theme tune, Duncan Lamont was a wide-ranging musician: sax player, bandleader, composer of orchestral music and library music. In 2019 he performed in a tribute concert at the 606 Club, aged 87, just before he died (10/22) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_... #jawiki