"My idea of composition is to spoil as much MS paper as possible. But my pupils here would far rather write a thesis on Schoenberg's use of the bass clarinet compared with von Webern's: or, better still, talk vaguely about the best method of introducing the second subject in the recapitulation. And some of these boys have really studied hard - if not music, anyhow books on music. Is this University or America?"
Key Works
1908
Opera,Savitri
1909
Suite
No.1, for military band
1910
Hymns from the Rig Veda
for chorus and orchestra (one of several sets)
1911
Suite
No.2, for military band
1912
Oriental Suite,Beni Mora
1913
St. Paul's Suite
for strings
1916
Orchestral suite,The Planets
1917
The Hymn of Jesus
for chorus and orchestra
1922
A Fugal Overture
Opera,The Perfect Fool
1924
Choral Symphony
Opera,At the Boar's Head
1927
Tone poem,Egdon Heath
1928
A Moorside Suite
for brass band
1930
Choral Fantasia
Prelude and scherzo
for military band, Hammersmith
