Christopher Rosevear <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >A sad example of composer/soldier must of course be George Butterworth. >Now what if he had survived the 14-18? Would he have moved from English >Pastoral? It's hard not to get the feeling that Butterworth had as much chance - or intention - of surviving the Great War as i have of being Australian Prime Minister.... He carefully & completely destroyed his musician's past when he entered the service; burning all his draft & unworthy scores & remaking himself so completely as a soldier that even his commanding officer had no idea that his Cpl Butterworth was the composer George Butterworth until after the war. A strange, strange man from that Alien world called Edwardian England; Butterworth's story suggests nothing so much as a Blackadder Goes Forth stripped of Atkinson, Robinson, Laurie, et al's humorous releases.... All the best, Robert Clements <[log in to unmask]>