28 SEPTEMBER 1951, Page 16

A West Country Composer?

SIR,—In answer to Dr. Vaughan Williams I should like to say that I omitted the name of Gerald Finzi from my West Country musitians through no disrespect for his muse but for purely topographical reasons. Mr. Finzi once told me that he- was born in St. John's Wood, in the terrace where I now live myself ; and although he is certainly by adoption and grace a "Three Choirs composer" I do not feel that he can be included in a list of composers of West Country origin.—Yours