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Ian Whyte 1901 - 1960
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Born Dunfermline. Studied music at RCM, London under Stanford and Vaughan Williams. In 1931, he bcame BBC Scotland's first Director of Music and in 1935 he co-founded the BBC Scottish Orchestra (now BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra). Whyte resigned from the BBC in 1941 to concentrate on composing, but he continued to conduct the BBC Orchestra. Major compositions include an opera, two operettas, two symphonic poems, three concertos and a ballet, Donald of the Burthens - whose `Finale' (featuring the highland bagpipes) remains in the concert repertoire. Whyte also conducted extensive research into traditional Scottish music and arranged over 200 songs for the BBC radio series Music from the Scottish Past'(1935-1939).
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