A distinguished reader has written with an alternative method of selecting a Composers’ XI which we thought merited a wider audience. Perhaps Neil (Ralph Vaughan) Williams could act as twelfth man?
Andrew (Johann) Strauss
Bob (Samuel) Barber
Harold “Doc” (Orlando) Gibbons
Clive (George) Lloyd
Derick (Hubert) Parry
Keith (William) Boyce
Dean (Edward) Elgar
Neil (Richard) Wagner
Paul (John) Adams
Geoff (Malcolm) Arnold
Sylvester (Jeremiah) Clarke