Edward Clark (conductor)

Thomas Edward Clark was an English conductor and music producer for the BBC. Through his positions in leading new music organizations and his wideranging contacts with British and European composers, he had a major impact on making contemporary classical music available to the British public for overyears. He was a leading figure in the BBCs Concerts of Contemporary Music between 1926 and 1939, and he played a significant role in the founding and early development of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He held prominent positions in the International Society for Contemporary Music from its inception in 1922, and was its President from 1947 to 1955.

Thomas Edward Clark was born in Newcastle upon Tyne onMay 1888. His father, James Bowness Clark , was a coal exporter and amateur musician who supported his sons musical interests and for two decades was the secretary of the Newcastle and Gateshead Choral Union. He and his wife Elizabeth ne Thirlaway had three children.

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