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Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895-1980)

For nearly thirty years "P-G", as he was universally known, was Head of the University of Manchester’s Music Department, latterly as the University's first Professor of Music.

In earlier days his career ran along altogether less academic lines, being specially concerned with the fate of opera in this country in the years following the First World War. It was in this context that his lifelong friendship with that greatest and most magnetic of all English conductors, Sir Thomas Beecham, first blossomed. Late fruit of this friendship was the book "Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor and impresario, as remembered by his friends and colleagues " which P-G compiled and edited as a labour of love in the years following Beecham's death in 1961.

A man of wide-ranging interests in all the arts, P-G was ever active in the cause of English music and musicians, and of opera in English, with many eminently practicable translations and several opera directorships to his credit. He was unflagging in his enthusiastic support of chamber music: more than one string quartet owes its success, and indeed its very existence, to his unstinting advice and encouragement whilst towards the end of his tenure of the Chair of Music at Manchester he was able to found the Ad Solem Ensemble, and also to design the University’s concert hall, acoustically still one of the best halls for chamber music in the north of England.

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Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895-1980) For nearly thirty years "P-G", as he was universally known, was Head of the University of Manchester’s Music Department, latterly as the University's first Professor of Music. In earlier days his career ran along altogether less academic lines, being specially concerned with the fate of opera in this country in the years following the First World War. It was in this context that his lifelong friendship with that greatest and most magnetic of all English conductors, Sir Thomas Beecham, first blossomed. Late fruit of this friendship was the book "Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor and impresario, as remembered by his friends and colleagues " which P-G compiled and edited as a labour of love in the years following Beecham's death in 1961. A man of wide-ranging interests in all the arts, P-G was ever active in the cause of English music and musicians, and of opera in English, with many eminently practicable translations and several opera directorships to his credit. He was unflagging in his enthusiastic support of chamber music: more than one string quartet owes its success, and indeed its very existence, to his unstinting advice and encouragement whilst towards the end of his tenure of the Chair of Music at Manchester he was able to found the Ad Solem Ensemble, and also to design the University’s concert hall, acoustically still one of the best halls for chamber music in the north of England.				P-G in 1955

Like Beecham, P-G always had a deep love and understanding of the music of Delius, and in his own works this aesthetic affinity is undoubtedly declared, even though he always speaks with a distinctive and personal voice, quite unmistakeable once known. There is also a profound feeling for the beauty - and essential sadness - of the natural world, perhaps particularly the ageless beauty of the hills, the lakes and the dales of his native Westmorland. Anyone who has seen the sun re-appear and heard birdsong after a hail shower over the Langdales in late April will see the point of the Westmoreland Sketch entitled "Shower in Spring" straightaway. In his retirement Humphrey Procter-Gregg, C.B.E., Emeritus Professor of Music in the University of Manchester, lived at Windermere within sight of the Langdales. It is hoped that this series of publications will go some way to presenting his vision to a wider audience.
				P-G in 1918
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	Several of Humphrey Procter-Gregg's have recently been recorded on the Dutton Epoch label. Clarinet Concerto on Dutton CDLX 7153 - Ian Scott (clarinet) and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Barry Wordsworth. CD Review Sonata No.3 for violin and piano on Dutton CDLX 7165 - Richard Howarth (violin) and Ian Buckle (piano) Sonata for clarinet and piano on Dutton CDLX 7165 - Nicholas Cox (clarinet) and Ian Buckle (piano) Sonata for horn and piano on Dutton CDLX 7165 - Bob Ashworth (horn) and Ian Buckle (piano) Westmoreland Sketches (Nos.23-26) on Dutton CDLX 7165 - Ian Buckle (piano)

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