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Percy William Whitlock (1903'1946) was an English organist and post-romantic composer and was born in Chatham, Kent. A student of Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, Whitlock quickly arrived at a musical idiom that was influenced by both his teacher's output and that of Edward Elgar. Like Vaughan Williams and Frederick Delius, he often used themes that sounded like folk songs but were, in fact, original creations. His lush harmonic style also bore traces of Gershwin and Rachmaninov. From 1921 to 1930 Whitlock was assistant organist at Rochester Cathedral in Kent. He then served as Director of Music at St Stephen's Church, Bournemouth for the next five years, combining this from 1932 with the role of that town's borough organist, in which capacity he regularly played at the local Pavilion Theatre. After 1935 he worked for the Pavilion Theatre full-time. A tireless railway enthusiast, he wrote at length about his hobby under the pseudonym Kenneth Lark. He worked closely wit

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