First edition. Volume produced in accordance with War Economy Standards. 94pp, with black and white portrait plate frontispiece. Grey cloth-covered boards, gilt stamped lettering on spine. 8vo. Cloth is tired and a little marked, gently rounded on corners and spine tips, with minor indentation along rear upper edge. Front panel slightly bowed. Hint of spotting on endpapers else neat, clean and tight.
Leslie Heward was an English conductor and composer, serving for a dozen years as Music Director at the City of Birmingham Orchestra after a spell in South Africa as conductor for the Cape Town Orchestra - and where he broadcast so frequently he had to conceal his identity under a handful of aliases. A child prodigy, playing the piano from the age of two, and the organ at the age of four, he was described by Hubert Parry as 'the kind of phenomenon that appears once in a generation'. Yet his life was cut short by TB, exacerbated by heavy smoking and drinking.
