JOHN MOREL is a Londoner and began his singing career very young as a boy soprano. He later completed his training in Italy with such verve that, for the time being, he became practically an Italian. He is tremendously interested not only in how he sings, but in what he sings, and builds programmes with care and thought, as when on a recent occasion he compiled a whole week's programmes for one of the Foundations of Music series entitled ' The Rise and Development of English song from the Twelfth Century to the Present Time', and spent a great many hours at the British Museum and other places searching amongst old manuscripts and in the works of mediaeval writers for material that should authoritatively represent the subject of his recitals. This is merely an example, for to everything he sings he brings the same serious research and artistic devotion.