(By permission of Air Vice-Marshal H. M. Cave-Browne -Cave, D.S.O.. D.F.C., Air Officer
Commanding R.A.F., Cranwell)
Conducted by Mr. A. E. SIMS (Soloist, Cpl. W. FRAZIER> )
When Coleridge-Taylor died in 1912, at the age of thirty-seven, British music sustained a loss that was irreparable. He had, besides more profound gifts, a genius for turning out light concert music, frequently written as incidental music to plays, which frankly sets out to appeal to popular taste, yet at the same time, by reason of the charm and individuality of the themes, the richness and variety of the harmony, and the sensitive feeling for orchestral colour, is a source of admiration and interest to the musician. To write light music that is successful from both a popular and artistic standpoint is an accomplishment rarely attained.
The ' Petite Suite de Concert' is, perhaps, his most popular work, and at least two of the numbers have been transcribed for practically every solo instrument and combination of instruments.

Illustrated on the Gramophone by F. H. SHERA , Rossiter Hoyle Professor of Music in the University of Sheffield
' Mother Goose ' (Ravel)