Lift the Latch - Piano Solo - Horace A. Bate

Contents:

1. The Dairymaids' Song
2. Gathering Mushrooms
3. Cock o' the Walk
4. Robin Redbreast
5. A Lark in the West
6. Butterflies
7. Glow-worms
8. Grey Skies
9. The Cricket Chirps
10. Fairy Rings
11. Staring Owl
12. Lady Moon
13. Falling Star

Horace Bate (1899-1995) studied organ with Charles Hylton Stewart at Rochester Cathedral, and then with Henry George Ley and Charles Herbert Kitson at the Royal College of Music in London. In 1921 he became organist of St Margaret's in Rochester, before becoming organist of St James in Muswell Hill (1923-1950), and was conductor of the Madrigal Society in Muswell Hill (1934-1995).