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This composer dedicated a Romance for Strings, Piano, and Harmonica to Larry Adler. A Minuet and Musette in C Dorian is the second movement of this composer’s A minor oboe concerto, which borrows from the discarded Scherzo of his similarly pastoral-mooded fifth symphony. Clifford Bevan notes that Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky's “Bydlo” may have inspired this composer’s F minor bass tuba concerto, the first (-5[1])in the repertoire. (15[3])This composer set “Dives and Lazarus” and (*) “Seventeen Come Sunday” in the opening march of his English Folk Song Suite for military band. A rising pentatonic figure represents the title creature of a piece for violin and orchestra by this composer based on a poem by George Meredith. For 10 points, (10[1])name (10[1])this English composer of Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and The Lark Ascending. ■END■

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