BY ALEC ROWLEY
The BBC Singers (B)
Sybilla Marshall Margaret Rees Winifred Downer Anne Wood Peter Pears Emlyn Bebb Victor Utting Victor Harding
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
The Sailor's Garland
1 Deep Water Jack. 2 The Blue Peter. 3 Sacramento. 4 A Sea Burthen. 5 The Green Thicket. 6 After Dark. 7 Rathlin Head
Five English Pastorals
1 Prologue. 2 Pastorella. 3 Jillian of Berry. 4 Song to a Minuet. 5 Shall we go Dance the Hay?
Alec Rowley had a brilliant career at the Royal Academy of Music. He entered the Academy at the age of fifteen as an organ scholar, and at the end of six years he had taken no
. fewer than forty examinations, including those for the L.R.A.M., A.R.A.M., and F.R.C.O. In addition, he collected as many medals as an Olympic runner has cups. As a teacher, he has been Professor and Examiner at Trinity College, London. As a composer, he has written numerous large-scale works for orchestra, chorus, and various chamber music combinations.