S.B. from Manchester
THE BESSES 0' TH' BARN BAND
Conducted by FRED. ROYLE
IN spite of his foreign-sounding name, Alfred Cellier was a real Londoner, who spent most of his life there. As a small boy he was a chorister at the Chapel Royal, St. James', and at the age of eighteen already became organist of All Saints', Blackheath. But for many years he was chiefly occupied with the theatre, conducting and composing, and in 1886, at the age of forty-two, scored the greatest success of his career with Dorothy. It ran continuously in one theatre for the whole autumn until near the end of December; transferred then to another, it had again an exceptionally long run. It is still quite often sung by amateur operatic societies, and parts of it are frequently heard in concerts; its popularity is fully merited by its own real charm and melodiousness.