ABSTRACT
Tennyson Charles's activities were still very much focused on the Trinity Chapel and Cambridge University Music Society (CUMS), and his timetable was busy with the usual several choral services per week and at least six hours' rehearsal time for the chapel, plus weekly rehearsals for both CUMS orchestra and choir. Stanford had most of Cambridge on his side, but the discussion is ample demonstration of how a chorus viewed Hubert Parry's music. Parry, appointed Professor of Music History, was also expected to take on some composers and he and Stanford remained the principal teachers of composition at the RCM until Parry's death in 1918. The work, Parry's Second Symphony, thereafter nicknamed 'Cambridge', was well received and Parry himself was pleased with the performance. Evidently Parry's work, so often subsequently held up as the symbolic commencement of the 'British Musical Renaissance', provoked strong reactions, giving some legitimacy to the accolade. Despite Parry's doubts, the performance went well and was enthusiastically received.
