Olive Kavann (Contralto)
Hubert Eisdell (Tenor)
The Wireless Military Band
Conducted by B. Walton O'Donnell

Dunhill, a distinguished former pupil of the Royal College of Music in London, where he held a Composition Scholarship, earned the gratitude of many of his fellow countrymen by a series of chamber music concerts which he ran for several years. Their special object was to bring forward music of young native composers which, although already performed, was in danger of being forgotten. His own most important works, apart from some distinguished chamber music and many beautiful songs, are a set of variations on an original theme, dedicated to the memory of Sir Hubert Parry, and a Symphony. The former was played in 1922 at the Gloucester Festival, and the latter a year later at Bournemouth. It has also been heard abroad. Dunhill gained a Carnegie Award in 1925 for his one-act Opera, The Enchanted Garden, although the opera has not so far been adequately presented.
He has done notable work in teaching at Eton and elsewhere; he has been an examiner at the Royal College of Music and is enthusiastic in the Music Competition Festival movement. Many of his Cantatas, operettas, and smaller pieces for young people are valuable from the educational point of view, and he is the author of an important book on chamber music.
This Fairy Suite is not the kind of music which needs any explanation for its enjoyment; the names of the several movements are all the guidance which listeners need.