UK / ARTS: Music world honours Sir Henry Wood (1944)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Musicians’ tribute to the doyen of English music Sir Henry Wood, at the Royal Academy of Music, is led by eminent composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Full Description: SV crowd applauding. GTV Leslie Boosey at microphone. Side view Sir Henry and Lady Wood listening to Boosey. CU Lady Wood listening. SV opening book to be presented to Wood. CU turning over pages and showing signatures. SV Ralph Vaughan Williams (Composer) presenting book to Wood. LV Wood at microphone. Wood speech SOT - “and although we celebrate this anniversary in the year of my Promenade Concerts Jubilee, I assure you I do not contemplate retirement. (Applause)... And I hope to wag the stick until the Inevitable claims this old timber“. (Applause) More of Wood painting. Wood reading book he was presented with. CU Wood. Personalities - Musicians; Sir Henry Joseph Wood (1869-1944), Ralph Vaughan-Wil