Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
Catherine Stewart (contralto)
Thomas Augustine Arne in his own day was recognised as one of the foremost of English musicians, and indeed from the production of his music to Milton's Comus in 1738 until about the middle of last century there was none to challenge that position with him. Since then his music has been somewhat unaccountably neglected, and we owe it largely to the enthusiasm of some of our young musicians today that the best of it is being revived. Julian Herbage has contributed a large share in reviving some of the finest music of the old Doctor, which has remained for generations forgotten on the dusty shelves of libraries.