(Leader, Hugh Bean )
Conductor, Harvey Phillips
John R. Heath , who died a year ago at the' age of sixty-three, was born at Edgbaston, Birmingham, but spent most of his life at Barmouth, North Wales. He was largely self-taught. His Three Pieces for string orchestra have the titles, Overture, Romance, and Rondel. He was also the local GP in Barmouth and the father of Kenneth Heath (cello).

Pamela Harrison, who is the wife of Harvey Phillips, studied at the Royal College of Music with Gordon Jacob and Arthur Benjamin. Her compositions include a number of chamber works and ' Six Poems of Baudelaire,' for tenor and string orchestra, first broadcast last October. ' Suite for Timothy,' which consists of five movements, was written in 1948 for the first birthday of her son Harold Rutland