Daily Express, 19 November 1913. Dentist sues American composer Emerson Whithorne for practicing too much in the flat above his dentist's chair. Judge: "it drowned the shrieks of the victims". Whithorne was married to/divorced from composer Ethel Leginska https://t.co/D9peewQ5Ab

Michael Somes, the dancer who first made his mark partnering with Margot Fonteyn in Constant Lambert's ballet Horoscope (1938), and paired again with Fonteyn for Tiresias (1951), died on 18 November 1994 https://t.co/Z9Fug6Fjkh

Wind arrangement of Lambert's Romeo & Juliet, arranged by Shea Lolin. On Frisson CD, out next January. https://t.co/erta1afewS

Pamela Harrison was born on 15 November 1915 in Orpington. Here's her piece Romney Marsh Goblin from ''Anderida: Six Diversions for piano" (1960, published by Chappell, 1963) https://t.co/deTEpEDtar

Excellent Clarion Trio lunchtime concert yesterday, their first full programme, with six original pieces commissioned plus encore. The audience loved it, and it sounded brilliant in the splendid Chawton House drawing room @ChawtonHouse https://t.co/Soi1usbrFH

Charles Herbert Kitson, English organist, influential teacher, author of several books on harmony and counterpoint, was born in Leyburn, Yorkshire on 13 November 1874. He died in May 1944. His address at the end of his life was 5 Argyll Road, Kensington #tooobscureforablueplaque

From "The Kennedy Center Crackup'' by Shawn McCreesh, New York Times, which is sobering reading. When Trump owns the BBC (thanks @Telegraph) we can expect much the same there. https://t.co/OQp3KmL47N

Edward German died on 11 November 1936 aged 74, long out of fashion as his Times obituary relates. German lived at 5 Hall Road, London NW8 (near Lord's Cricket Ground) for many years, enjoying the secluded walled garden and hosting many musical visitors https://t.co/3o5BpoaQin

The Telegraph revelling in its "victory" over the BBC. If it were a choice between the survival of one or the other, I know which one I'd go for....

The six exciting and original pieces (specially commissioned by ABRSM and others) include compositions by @mbetteridge, Louise Derwent, Chris Gardner, Ailie Robertson, Alexandra Skevington and Fred Viner @openupmusic

Many thanks to @the_roomz in Stevenage for excellent, accessible practice space yesterday. The Clarion Trio's next concert is this Friday, 1pm, at historic Chawton House in Alton, tickets available

For his D.Mus at Oxford, John Henry Mee submitted his Missa solemnis in Bb. Being a man of means, he hired the most eminent solo vocalists, an orchestra, and "Mr Alfred Broughton's Leeds Choir of 160 voices" to perform it at the Sheldonian on 9 Nov 1888

Excellent podcast series, The House at Number 48, involves this painting, Eisenwalzwerk by Hans Baluschek, stolen during WW2. https://t.co/UX0bczMZkG https://t.co/EJC2ejPjxx

Max Abrams (born 1907, died 5 November 1995) was an influential teacher of several generations of drummers, including James Holland and Carl Palmer (and also Roy Castle). Philip Larkin bought his set of tuition records, issued in 1935 on Parlophone 78s https://t.co/XfFN4a2jUK

Influential drummer Max Abrams died 20 years ago in Eastbourne, on 5 November 2005, aged 88. He played with various club house bands in 1930s Soho, and from the 40s taught countless professional drummers. Even Philip Larkin bought his tuition records https://t.co/u1JlhxQzz0

I honestly thought my work-mandated Teams application had defaulted to some inferior cloud-based version, but it turns out it is the "new Teams". The calendar in particular looks terrible and is close to unusable. Onwards and upwards: the tech revolution continues!

I asked ChatGPT to pull together a list of references to novels with characters based on real composers. Of the 30 it came up with at least three were fake and 15 or so were tentative (to put it kindly) or just wrong. Here are the three fake ones I looked at more closely...

On 30 October 1929 Gordon Bryan premiered Constant Lambert's Piano Sonata at the Aeolian Hall. As Giles Easterbrook said: "It has continued to baffle and intrigue pianists in equal measure ever since".

Clara Butterworth was an actress soprano in long-running productions such as Lilac Time (1922), and sang lucrative "royalty ballads" composed by her husband Montague Phillips. She survived him and most of her family, dying at the age of 109 on 30 Oct 1996.

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