b'Program Notescontinuedadditions; those who knew C.A.E. will understand this reference to one whose life was a romantic and delicate inspiration.Variation II - (H.D.S-P.) - Hew David Steuart-Powell, a pianist with whom Elgar played chamber music.Variation III - (R.B.T.) - Richard Baxter Townshend, an old man who would participate in amateur theater productions. He would often ride his bicycle through town constantly ringing the bell. The woodwinds doubling the violin pizzicato are meant to represent the bell.Variation IV - (W.M.B.) - William Meath Baker, a country squire, gentleman and scholar. Variation V - (R.P.A.) - Richard Penrose Arnold, son of the famed poet Matthew Arnold and a lover of music.Variation VI - (Ysobel) - Isabel Fitton, a violinist and good friend who, due to a shortage of violists in the neighborhood, switched to that instrument. (This is a problem that plagues many youth orchestra conductors to this day.)Variation VII - (Troyte) - Arthur Troyte Griffith, an architect whose attempt to take piano lessons with Elgar did not end well. Even so he remained one of Elgars closest friends. He wrote about the variation, The uncouth rhythm of the drums and lower strings was really suggested by some maladroit essays to play the pianoforte; later the strong rhythm suggests the attempts of the instructor (E.E.) to make something like order out of chaos, and the final despairing slam records that the effort proved to be in vain.Variation VIII - (W.N.) - Named after Winifred Norbury, an arts patron who lived in an 18th-century country house called Sherridge, of which this variation is mostly a descriptor. Variation IX - (Nimrod) - This is the most beloved of the variations. Named after the biblical hunter mentioned in Genesis, it depicts precious time spent with Elgars longtime friend and musical confidant August Jaeger. Elgar once wrote, The Variation . . . is the record of a long summer evening talk, when my friend discoursed eloquently on the slow movements of Beethoven, and said that no one could approach Beethoven at his best in this field, a view with which I cordially concurred.Variation X - (Dorabella) - Dora Penny, step-niece of William Meath Baker from Variation IV.Variation XI - (G.R.S.) - These initials belong to George Robertson Sinclair, an organist at the Hereford Cathedral. The music depicts Sinclairs dog.'