Eugene Goossens, the third bearer of the name to achieve distinction as a conductor, bids fair to add greater lustre to the family annals as a composer than his distinguished father and grandfather. Sturdily English in spite of his Belgian descent, he owes less than most of his contemporaries to English folk song. His music is quite definitely original, and though in many ways as modern as most of the music of the present-day school, it is not so strange in its idiom as some of late years, by which concert-goers have been rather baffled.