Conductor. Born Daniel Eyers Godfrey at Pimlico, London, the son of Joyce Boyles and Lieutenant Daniel Godfrey,the band master of the Grenadier Guards. He, too, followed a career in music, he toured South Africa in 1891 through 1892 as musical director of an opera company. In 1893, he was contracted by the Bournemouth Corporation to conduct a seasonal orchestra, the effort, however, evolved into the permanent Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, conducting more than 2,000 symphony concerts over the next forty years. He was also conductor of the Grand Orchestra at Covent Garden from 1903 to 1914. From 1920 through 1922, he was also a lecturer on music at Birmingham University. He conducted the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra on the occasion of several sound recordings from 1914 to 1933; some of the Columbia records included such titles as 'Slippery Sticks,' 'Dicky Bird Hop,' and the novelty foxtrot 'Clatter of the Clogs.' He was created a Knight Bachelor at the 1922 Birthday Honors for George V for services to British music. He retired in 1934 after forty-one years with the BMO. He died four years later at 71, some two thousand mourners, in addition to the entire Orchestra, attended his funeral.
Conductor. Born Daniel Eyers Godfrey at Pimlico, London, the son of Joyce Boyles and Lieutenant Daniel Godfrey,the band master of the Grenadier Guards. He, too, followed a career in music, he toured South Africa in 1891 through 1892 as musical director of an opera company. In 1893, he was contracted by the Bournemouth Corporation to conduct a seasonal orchestra, the effort, however, evolved into the permanent Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, conducting more than 2,000 symphony concerts over the next forty years. He was also conductor of the Grand Orchestra at Covent Garden from 1903 to 1914. From 1920 through 1922, he was also a lecturer on music at Birmingham University. He conducted the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra on the occasion of several sound recordings from 1914 to 1933; some of the Columbia records included such titles as 'Slippery Sticks,' 'Dicky Bird Hop,' and the novelty foxtrot 'Clatter of the Clogs.' He was created a Knight Bachelor at the 1922 Birthday Honors for George V for services to British music. He retired in 1934 after forty-one years with the BMO. He died four years later at 71, some two thousand mourners, in addition to the entire Orchestra, attended his funeral.
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