Adrian Boult
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Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, CH was a British conductor. Brought up in a prosperous mercantile family, he followed musical studies in England and at Leipzig, Germany, with early conducting work in London
Christ Church, Oxford, where Boult was an undergraduate 1908–12
Gustav Holst, whose suite The Planets Boult premiered in 1918
Boult in the early 1920s
Broadcasting House, London, headquarters of the BBC, where Boult was director of music from 1930 to 1942
British Symphony Orchestra
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The British Symphony Orchestra is the name of a number of symphony orchestras, active in both concert halls and recording studios, which have existed at various times in Britain since c1905 until the
Adrian Boult, conductor of the British Symphony Orchestra 1920–1923, by Ishibashi Kazunori (1923)
Nave of the Birmingham Oratory (1907–1910), church of a community of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, founded in 1848 by Ernest Newman
Harty sketched by a member of the Hallé Orchestra, c1920
Perceval Allen as Brünnhilde in 1913. She also made the first recordings of Richard Strauss's Elektra.