Gervase Alfred Booth Hughes (1 September 1905 – July 1984) was an English composer, conductor and writer on music.
From 1926 to 1933, Hughes pursued a career as a conductor and chorus master, principally at the British National Opera Company, and also co-produced Shakespeare plays.
He left the musical profession in 1933, raising a family and working first as an executive in a railway company and later running luxury European tours.
The company gave several performances of his one-act operetta, Castle Creevey, in 1928–30, and the score was published by Novello & Co.[1] In 1929–30 along with Sir Thomas Beecham and Jack Westrup, he was one of three conductors of the London Opera Festival, for which he arranged and conducted Handel's Giulio Cesare, its first British performance since the composer's lifetime.
[4] Herman Klein in The Gramophone commented that the costumes, the lines and the acting "made the audience rock with laughter," but added, "One reservation should be made, however, and that applies to the admirable work of Mr. Gervase Hughes, both in arranging the score and conducting the efficient orchestra, including the faultless accompaniments played upon the harpsichord by Mr. Boris Ord.