Giles was a welcome regular at concerts of British and contemporary music. Wearing his Arthur Bliss Society hat, Giles once told me that when Bliss’s forty-minute Metamorphic Variations was premiered (1973, LSO/Vernon Handley, Fairfield Halls, Croydon) it had to be cut due to lack of rehearsal time. The concert (live on BBC Radio 3) also … Continue reading Sad news: Giles Easterbrook – “musical polymath” (composer, promoter, publisher…) – has died at the age of 72.