[6] They returned to England in the late 1910s when Maurice joined the Royal Manchester College of Music (RMCM),[7] studying violin with Adolph Brodsky[8][9] and graduating in 1923.
[20] At the Free Trade Hall in Manchester in 1932, Ward played Richard Strauss's symphonic poem for 'cello, viola and orchestra, Don Quixote (Op.35) with Stuart Knussen and The Hallé, conducted by Hamilton Harty.
[25] In November 1943, Ward performed Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with the violinist Jean Pougnet, accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Society Orchestra under Sir Adrian Boult.
[26] Also in November 1943, at Wolverhampton Civic Hall, Ward performed a new Sonatina for Viola and Piano, specially written for him by his friend, the composer Thomas Baron Pitfield.
The film is set in the year 1939 and highlights the struggle the London Philharmonic Orchestra was going through to make ends meet.