Conducted by the Rev. S J. MARRIOTT
(Episcopal Church, North Berwick)

VALENTINE DUNN (readings)
Herman Finck , a Londoner, a conductor known to the audience of every theatre in London, a composer of most engaging light music known to every audience in the world, is in all three capacities as popular a musician as any appearing before the microphone. Finck's s experience of the theatre world and the light operatic stage is probably more extensive than that of any of his colleagues; it goes back to the 'Naughty
Nineties ', covers much of the ground recalled by ' Songs from the Shows and is a history in itself of a fascinating period of two generations of light d music. Herman Finck claims to be d the originator of that kind of musical medley known as the switch and few of his imitators are so fitted to put together that sort of arrangement fewer still to make it thoroughly and musically interesting. But it is in the musically interesting. But it is in the field of incidental music for plays, ot musical comedy, and of revues that most of his music has been written.
The productions he has been thus concerned in are numbered in scores, beginning with The Sin of St. Hulda a forgotten play, in 1896. He is still writing such music whenever his services are needed, as they are as often as he can find time for. At the moment he is conducting the revival in London of his great friend, Sir Edward German 's Merrie England.
Hello! America was a revue by J Hastings Turner , for which Find wrote the music. It was put on at the Palace Theatre in September, 1918.