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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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London Symphony Orchestra
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(LSO)
Founded in 1904 by four brass players from Henry *Wood's orchestra, indignant at the threat to their pockets from his stopping the practice of musicians sending a deputy when more profitable work was offered elsewhere. The orchestra was therefore self-governing from the start (it had a lucky escape on its pioneering 1912 tour of the USA – the original travel plans had included a crossing on the maiden voyage of the Titanic).
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The LSO was the first British orchestra to record the music for a film (Bliss's score for *Things to Come in 1936), and more recent sound tracks have included Star Wars, Superman and Close Encounters of the Third Kind; the orchestra has also made more of an impact on the popular market than most, with a series of successful albums under the title Classic Rock. In 1982 the LSO became the resident orchestra at London's *Barbican Hall.
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