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My first job was in London and somehow I managed to find enough money out of my meagre wages to buy a season ticket for the 1948 Henry Wood Promenade concerts. Most nights as soon as work was over, I joined the queue and generally got a good position in the arena. This way I began to learn the basic orchestral and choral classical repertoire. The main diet was Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart and the romantic concertos of Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov. But there were performances by contemporary composers, often British ones, few of whom are heard in concert halls today. Popular