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| | A 93rd GARLAND OF BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC COMPOSERS (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Dorothy Atkinson, born in 1893, composed the suite Summer Sketches (whose movements were Thistledown, Wild Roses, Golden Bees and Swallows) and evocative single movements Moths Around a Candle, described as a "valse caprice", Indian Summer, Sentry Go and Dance of the May Flies. |
 | | She also had success with her light-hearted songs of which we may exemplify The Harvester, The Ploughman, Winklepicker Bill, When Grannie Was a Girl, O Golden Dawn, Homage and, from the BBC radio show "Watch Your Fancy", Up With the Lark. |
 | | Frederick Bayer (1913-70), or Baycock to give him his real surname (he also used those of Guy Dessly and William Field) was an organist, BBC producer and sometime chairman of the Light Music Society. |
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