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Cheltenham through student days at the Royal College of Music; theprofessional trombonist; girls' schools and folk tunes; Morley College; 10,The Terrace, Barnes; more suites and "The Cloud Messenger"; new music wing,dirge and "The Planets"; Thaxted and "The Hymn of Jesus"; wartime serviceswith the YMCA; the education of composers; in the wake of "The Planets";coping with fame; an invitation from America; first American visit;recordings, first choral symphony, at the Boar's Head, music for amateurs;the Damrosch Commission; the premieres of Egdon Heath; a second Americaninvitation; second American visit; 1929-1931; the bells; Harvard beckons; thestar conductor; New York; the Harvard professor; Montreal and return to NewYork; Boston and Washington DC; recovery; return to Ann Arbor; farewell toAmerica; late 1932; Carlisle; lyric movement and Brook Green suite; the songof Solomon; the final months.