Henry Wood
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Sir Henry Joseph Wood was an English conductor best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms. He conducted them for nearly half a century, introd
Portrait by Ernest Walter Histed, c. 1906
1891 production of Messager's La Basoche, for which Wood was répétiteur
Robert Newman, co-founder with Wood of the Queen's Hall promenade concerts
Wood in 1908 – painting by Cyrus Cuneo
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