Relayed from the Town Hall, Birmingham
The British Women's Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargent
Eva Tollworthy (Contralto)
(Variations on an original Theme for Pianoforte and Orchestra)
(First Performance, conducted by The Composer)

'The Mower Damon' is a set of variations on an original theme. The score is prefixed by the following quotation from Andrew Marvell's 'Clorinda and Damon,' which is the key to the mood of the work.
I am the mower Damon, known
By all the meadows I have mown

On me the morn her dews distils Before her darling daffodils,
And, coming home, the evening sweet In cowslip water bathes my feet.