Henry Coward

He conducted societies in Leeds, Huddersfield, Newcastle and Glasgow, and toured worldwide with the Sheffield Choir.

[3][4] Dan Godfrey wrote that "it is doubtful whether England has ever produced a better or more gifted choir trainer than Coward...

He has evolved, formulated and put into practice a method of choral technique which has had the result of bringing about a revival of singing in chorus which has spread through the whole Empire.

"[5] After World War I, Henry Coward faced criticism for being unable to conduct an orchestra, but was knighted in 1926 and, from 1929 to 1944, served as President of the Tonic Sol-fa College in London.

Coward was a white supremacist who campaigned against jazz,[6] describing it as "atavistic, lowering, degrading and a racial question ... composed of ... unquestionably grotesque forms.