died 19 April 1950
An entertainment in words and music given by MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-soprano)
PETER DICKINSON (piano) SUSAN BRADSHAW (piano)
SIR JOHN BETJEMAN (speaker) with additional introductions by PETER DICKINSON , who devised the programme.
Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson (1883-1950) was an English peer, a professional diplomat, a successful novelist and a composer of rather eccentric music much admired by Stravinsky. This programme includes all his songs and piano solos and a set of piano duets, plus readings from his novels. poems and other writings.
(An edited recording of a concert promoted by the Park Lane Group at the Purcell Room, London, on 8 Dec 1972) ‡