BANTOCK, SIR GRANVILLE (1868— ), English com poser, born in London on Aug. 7, 1868; studied at Trinity College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, London. From 1893 96 he edited the New Quarterly Musical Review and toured the country as conductor of musical comedy and light music. At the same time, and throughout the succeeding years, he associated himself actively with the more advanced school of musical thought, and attracted attention by the individuality and free dom from conventionality of his own earlier compositions. In the autumn of 190o he became principal of the school of music at tached to the Birmingham and Midland Institute, and later pro fessor of music at the University of Birmingham, and in both positions he found further opportunities for proclaiming his ideals and advancing their acceptance. Of his own works composed during this period the most important was his picturesque and elaborate setting for solo voices, chorus and orchestra of Fitz gerald's Omar Khayyam, which immediately took its place among the most notable achievements of its time. How great are Ban tock's powers as an orchestral colourist is made sufficiently plain in such works as Omar Khayyam, the Hebridean Symphony and The Great God Pan, while not less striking have been some of his experiments in the evolution of a new choral technique in such works as his Atalanta in Calydon and Vanity of Vanities. In connection with the latter and his other choral compositions it may be noted that Bantock has always been an enthusiastic sup porter and apostle of the competition festival movement.