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Advance Australian composers fair

hile very welcome, especially the attention paid to the under-appreciated music of Peggy Glanville Hicks, your, is worth hearing. Also missing is Arthur Benjamin, a contemporary and friend of Howells, Bliss and Gurney. He deserves to be better known for more than his association with Alfred Hitchcock or for light music like his . Especially good are his Symphony and Piano Concerto, and Jascha Heifetz admired and recorded his Violin Concerto.

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