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Conductor, born in Chester, Cheshire, NW England, UK. After studying at Oxford and Leipzig, he conducted the City of Birmingham Orchestra (1924--30), and was then appointed musical director of the BBC and conductor of the newly formed BBC Symphony Orchestra. After his retirement from broadcasting in 1950, he was conductor-in-chief of the London Philharmonic Orchestra until 1957, and continued to conduct regularly until 1981. He was knighted in 1937. |
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