Coda The Lady Composer in Print

“Madeleine has real gifts, and is modest about them.” —Percy Buck, Teacher’s Annual Report, November 30, 1939 Madeleine Dring left behind many unpublished works. As the pain of her sudden passing lessened, her husband Roger Lord began to sift through these manuscripts to decide on pieces suitable for publication. A superb musician with some training in composition (he, too, studied with Herbert Howells, if only briefly), he knew well the worth of his wife’s music and set about enhancing her posthumous reputation. In this he was aided by Lance Bowling and his company, Cambria Music, which was now issuing printed music as well as recordings (see Table B.1). The first compositions published were ...