John Squire was a banker and skilled landscape painter whose work was exhibited at the prestigious British Royal Academy, but more importantly also a musician who had great influence on musical life in the West of England and south Wales. This fascinating work of social history, based on extensive primary-source research, places his life and career in its broader cultural and social context to give a history of classical music-making in provincial Victorian Britain. A detailed account of an important and entirely obscured figure, this is an excellent contribution to the history of amateur music-making, its increasing professionalization and the formation of British tastes outside London during the Victorian period.
John Hugh Thomas has lived a life steeped in music: he was founder and then conductor and Musical Director of the renowned Swansea Bach Choir for almost five decades; lecturer in Music at the Universities of Swansea and Cardiff; Head of Vocal Studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama; Chorus-Master of the BBC Welsh Chorus; tutor and conductor of the National Youth Choir of Wales; Conductor of the Gwent Bach Choir; Conductor of the Cardiff Polyphonic Choir; on the Committee for the Swansea Festival and former President of the Gower Festival.
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