Trevor Harvey (conductor)
Trevor Harvey (1911—1989) was an English conductor. Biography. Trevor Harvey was born in 1911 in Freshwater, Isle of Wight. He was a conductor, critic, and broadcaster. From 1935 to 1942 he worked as assistant chorus master at the BBC (in 1941 he conducted the BBC Singers and John Ireland performing "Spring, the Sweet Spring", "A Cradle Song", "Variations on Cadet Rousselle", "When May is in His Prime", "Fain Would I Change That Note", "A New Year Carol"; the same Ireland dedicated "The Holy Boy: A Carol of the Nativity" to Harvey). From 1946 he was a free‐lance  conductor. From 1951 to 1973 he was the conductor of Sir Robert Mayer children's concerts. From 1960 to 1972 he was with the British Youth Symphony Orchestra. He shared an apartment with Peter Pears and Basil Douglas in the 1930s and is responsible for some important broadcast performances of Benjamin Britten, including "The Company of Heaven" (1937) and "The World of the Spirit" (1938), both composed under suggestion of Harvey, and the first performance in England of "Diversions, Op. 21" in 1950. He died in 1989 in London.