Composer

No. 1 (October 1958)

Table of Contents
Pages 1-2: Editorial
Pages 2-7: Gordon Jacob, Obituary: "Ralph Vaughan Williams" [Pages 2-6]; "Joseph Holbrooke" [Page 7]
Pages 8-10: Report of a Meeting Between the Guild and the B.B.C
Pages 10-12: Guy Warrack, "Catalogue Volume 1" [Report]
Pages 13-19: Edmund Rubbra, "Letter to a Young Composer"
Pages 19-26: [A Chartered Accountant], "Income Tax and the Composer and Musician"
Page 27: Richard Arnell, "Ballet Contracts"
Pages 28-29: Peter Tahourdin, "Word About Music"
Pages 30-32: John Gardner, "Are M.S.S. Insurable?"
Page 33: Correspondence
- Robert Still
Page 34: "Wanted: An Opera"
Page 35: "White Rock Bottom"
Pages 36-52: Regional Reports
- Pages 36-40: Arthur Butterworth, "The North of England"
- Pages 40-43: Norman Fulton, "The West of England"
- Pages 44-45: Robert Crawford, "Scotland"
- Pages 46-49: David Wynne, "Wales"
- Pages 50-52: Douglas Lilburn
Page 53: New Members
Page 54-55: Competitions

Pages 1-2: Editorial
Pages 3-5: Steuart Wilson (Sir), "Dr. Ralph Vaughan Williams, O.M., October 12th 1872 – August 26th 1958" [Obituary, reprinted from Music & Letters January 1959 issue]
Pages 6-11: Roy Douglas, "V.W.'s Scores" [Reprinted from the R.C.M. Magazine]
Pages 12-14: Adrian Boult (Sir), "Vaughan Williams as seen by a Conductor"
Pages 14-16: Gerald Cockshott, "Informal Sessions at 'The White Gates'
Pages 16-18: Terence Kermode, "Vaughan Williams' Place in a Layman's Listening"
Pages 18-20: Elizabeth Maconchy, "Vaughan Williams as a Teacher"
Page 21: Thomas Pitfield, "Pilgrim's Progress (Quatrain on the Death of Vaughan Williams"
Pages 21-22: Greenhouse Allt (Dr.), "Dr. Martin Shaw"
Page 23: "Regional Report: Eastern Canada"
Pages 24-25: Adrian Cruft. "Insurance of M.S.S."
Page 26: Graham Whettam, "Insurance of M.S.S – continued"
Page 27: "Travel in Greece"
Page 28: "Operatic Subjects"
Page 28: [Request by Mr. F.H. Vauville-Wright for information on composers Charles Arthur Rawlings and Alfred William Rawlings]
Pages 29-31: Letters
- Page 29: Graham Whettam, "Music for Dance"
- Page 30: Ernest Tomlinson, "Orchestration M.S. Paper"
- Pages 30-31: Ernest Tomlinson, "Public Attitude to Serious Music"
Page 31: "Are Pigs better cared for than Music?"
Page 31: "Exhausted Composers"
Pages 32-45: Member News
Page 46: New Members
Page 47: Executive Committee List