1 & 2: Elgar's English Twilight, an Idyll
or Dream Interludes of a Knightly Character

Esoteric strands in the music of a Nationalist composer with some new light on the text of the Nazarene Oratorios.

Part One: The God Against Art

Part Two: The Wand and the Fan

3: Altarus: A 1932 Coinage by Havergal Brian?

The word Altarus was pencilled by the composer on the title page of his Third Symphony and later erased.

Though it looks like a Latin word, it isn't. A tentative solution to this minor mystery is offered. The greater riddle of Brian's thwarted career

is actually much easier to solve: there are many clues in the published literature.

4: The Holy City & Finnegans Wake

Or ambiguous light on the Victorian Ballad, a phantasmagoria.

Starring Michael Maybrick, Frederick Weatherly, James Joyce
supported by The Freemasons, Danny Boy, The IRA and Jack the Ripper

5: Songs of the Bow

A Celtic Mystery starring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

also featuring Arthur Machen, Roger Casement, The Cottingley Fairies, The Angels of Mons and Mother Goose

6: John, Paul, George, Ringo and Theodor?

Help! A Schoenberg pupil is credited with writing the Beatles songs!