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The music of MAURICE BESLY

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A programme arranged by Gwen Williams , with Lorely Dyer
Derek Oldham
BBC Theatre Chorus
Trained by Charles Groves
BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Compere, Patric Curwen
Born in 1888 in Yorkshire,
Maurice Besly studied at Cams College, Cam-bridge, and at the Leipzig Conservatoire. He became Director of Music at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1919, and a year later was appointed successor to
Sir Hugh Allen as conductor of the Oxford
Orchestral Society. While a prisoner during the last war, he raised an orchestra in the camp.

Contributors

Arranged By:
Gwen Williams
Unknown:
Lorely Dyer
Unknown:
Derek Oldham
Leader:
Tate Gilder
Unknown:
Patric Curwen
Unknown:
Maurice Besly
Unknown:
Sir Hugh Allen

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