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THE BIRMINGHAM STUDIO ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOSEPH Lewis HERBERT HOWELLS comes from Lydney.
Of this little orchestral piece, composed about ten years ago, he has said, ' Though written to an imaginary scene, it little matters what particular " picture " is in the listener's mind, so there be a picture.'
CHARLES SIMON in a Gloucestershire Sketch, introducing traditional phrases, proverbs, couplets, and a ballad all gleaned personally by the arranger (Simon) QIR HERBERT BREWER'S work as Con-
SIR ductor, Organist and Composer is already familiar to listeners who have heard broadcast a part of the Three Choirs Festival at Gloucester, which, as Organist of the Cathedral, he conducted. THOUGH Parry was born at Bournemouth
J- (1848), he was a son of a distinguished Gloucester man, T. Gambier Parry, of Highnam Court, and several of his compositions were produced at the Three Choirs Festival at Gloucester. The Last Movement of the Symphony, which has received the nickname of the ' English,' consists of a sot of twelve Variations and a tail-piece on a melody of a cheery, determined cast.

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