Leader, Leonard Hirsch
Conductor, Eric Fogg
William Parsons (bass)
British Composers
After service in the War, which included two years as prisoner of war in Germany, Gordon Jacob entered the Royal College of Music to study composition under the late Sir Charles Stanford, and conducting under Sir Adrian Boult. He is now on the teaching staff there. His principal works include a ballet, The Jew in the Bush, a concerto for viola and orchestra, a concerto for piano and strings, a string quartet, an overture ' Clogher Head ', and the Variations on an Original Theme.