Guy Warrack

WARRACK, Guy (Douglas Hamilton). b. Edinburgh, 8 February 1900; d. London, 12 February 1986. He studied at Winchester College, Magdalen College, Oxford, and the Royal College of Music (with Ralph Vaughan Williams* and Adrian Boult, and where he was on the teaching staff, 1925-35). He conducted the BBC Scottish Orchestra (1936-45) and Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet (1948-51). He composed Variations for Orchestra (1924), an ‘Edinburgh’ Symphony (1932), Divertimento Pasticciato (1938), songs, a Te Deum and scores for documentary films including Theirs is the Glory (1946; about the battle of Arnhem), XIV Olympiad (1948) and A Queen is Crowned (1953). He also made many arrangements — including a...