Composer, conductor, and critic, born in London, England, UK. He studied at the Royal College of Music, London, became conductor of the Sadler's Wells Ballet (1928--47), and was also known as a concert conductor and music critic, notably in Music Ho! (1934). His best-known composition is the choral work in jazz idiom, The Rio Grande (1927). Other works include the ballets Pomona (1927) and Horoscope (1938), and the cantata Summer's Last Will and Testament (1936).