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edited by IAN WILSON and Saturday Sport
R. E. KINGSLEY
(' Rex ' of The Sunday Mail)

1. Corrymeela 2. Fairy Lough
3. Cuttin' Rushes 4. Johneen
5. A Broken Song 6. Back to Ireland Stanford was perhaps the most dominating influence in British music up to the War. Many of the leading composers of today passed through his hands, either at the Royal College of Music or at Cambridge University.
Despite Stanford's extensive teaching and conducting activities, he found time to write an enormous amount of fine music, including operas, symphonies, chamber works, and songs. Much of his work has an Irish flavour, as is only natural with a man who had more knowledge than any musician living of the folk-music of his native country. Indeed, the ' Petrie Collection of Irish Music', which Stanford edited, is the standard authority. In all his music he displays keen melodic invention and craftsmanship of the highest order.