b'Angela MorleyReverieI clearly recall the name Wally Stott from listening to episodes of the Goon Show and Hancocks Half Hour in my early youth, for it was Stott who wrote the theme music for these and many other BBC radio shows. He enjoyed many successes as a film and radio composer, but was continually haunted by the feeling that he had been born the wrong gender. Showing enormous courage, and with the devoted support of his second wife, he traveled to Switzerland in the 70s and returned to Britain as Angela Morley. Far more confident and comfortable with her new identity, Angela Morley moved to the USA where she achieved many successes as a film and TV composer, collaborating with John Williams (Star Wars, E.T., Schindlers List, etc.) and winning three Emmy Awards for her television compositions, which included the music for Dallas and Dynasty. Morleys Reverie was written in 2002-03 and dedicated to the violinist Geoffrey Allan. Fritz Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro, in the style of Pugnani The Praeludium and Allegro is one of many Kreisler compositions published early in the 20th century which he originally credited to 17th or 18th-century composers whom he had rediscovered, in this case the Baroque-era violinist/composer Gaetano Pugnani. Such pieces became collectively subtitled in the style of after Kreisler finally revealed his curious charade in 1935. Some critics and musicologists were not amused. But Kreislers intent was a good-natured effort to avoid what he thought would be undue repetition of his own name in his concert programs. He replied to the complainers that they had already praised the works as worthy, adding, The name changes, the value remains. And more importantly, these works are not parodies, but rather Kreislers highly effective exercises on buskaid.org.za/ 15'