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Later years brought performances of Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, Edward Elgar's "Falstaff", Claude Debussy's "La mer" and Benjamin Britten's "Four Sea Interludes". In 1989, after 25 years in office, Arthur Butterworth hinted that he did not plan to go on indefinitely though it was not until 1993 that he gave his final concert.