Hyam Greenbaum

[1] He was friendly with many of his English music contemporaries, including Constant Lambert, Alan Rawsthorne, and William Walton, and often helped them with technical advice on orchestration.

Greenbaum married the harpist Sidonie Goossens on 26 April 1924 at Kensington Registry Office and they set up home in a first floor flat on the Fulham Road, opposite Michelin House.

At the beginning of 1929 Greenbaum and Sidonie moved to a larger flat on the top floor of 5, Wetherby Gardens, SW5, which became a regular meeting place for an expanded circle of hard-drinking musicians, also including Arnold Bax, Patrick Hadley, Spike Hughes, Alan Rawsthorne and William Walton.

[1] This was the first high-definition standard (405 lines) television test transmission, with the orchestra broadcasting from Alexandra Palace to the Radiolympia exhibition being held at Olympia London.

[15][16] Its repertoire was wide, ranging from music for drama productions through to a televised adaptation of Tristan und Isolde (in two one-hour sections) on 24 January 1938.

[19] In 1939 when Bower directed The Tempest with Peggy Ashcroft and George Devine, Greenbaum conducted the Sibelius incidental music, heard for the first time in its theatrical context.

For instance on 19 November 1941, at the insistence of Adrian Boult, he conducted Franz Liszt's symphonic poem Orpheus and Ferruccio Busoni's Violin Concerto.

[12] Greenbaum died of alcohol-related problems, one day after his 41st birthday, the alcoholism fueled by his career difficulties and depression resulting from the still birth of their only son.

"[25] As a composer, Greenbaum achieved some recognition with his Parfums de Nuits, three miniatures for oboe and orchestra written for Leon Goossens[26] and performed at the Proms on 12 October 1922.