Under the direction of EDGAR MORGAN with PETER HOWARD (baritone)
CHARLES DIBDIN , the eighteenth century composer of ' Tom Bowling ', Poor Jack ' and other famous sea-songs, was a best-seller in his day. He had a very full life, composed the words and music of a great number of operas for Sadler's Wells, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and other London theatres, as well as songs-almost as many as Schubert ; gave concerts, or ' table entertainments ' as he called them, at which he was author, composer, singer, and accompanist, with tremendous success ; wrote a huge ' History of the Stage ' and an equally lengthy ' Professional Life ' of himself; retired on a State pension granted by one ministry and repudiated by the next ; opened a music shop, was attacked by paralysis and died in his seventieth year.