The Whinyates String Quartet: Seymour Whinyates (violin); Dorothy
Everitt (violin) ; Veronica Gotch
(viola) ; Helen Just (violoncello)
Perhaps most people remember Charles Wood as the composer of that stirring song ' Ethiopia Saluting the Colours', and of many part-songs. Besides writing a great quantity of music, he was famous for many years as a teacher. He taught some of our leading present-day composers, such as Vaughan Williams, and in 1924 he succeeded
Stanford as Professor of Music at Cambridge University. He held the post only two years, dying in 1926. Like Stanford, he was an Irishman who settled in England and collected and edited a great many beautiful Irish tunes.