Young Years
The orchestra’s archives covering the years up to 1935 are decidedly thin; only a painstaking trawl through microfilms of past editions of the Huddersfield Daily Examiner and other local newspapers (more than one in those days) can establish a firmer picture. For many years before and during the First World War the orchestra was conducted by another prominent local musician, J E Ibeson (a descendant of whom is a current playing member). At some time he was succeeded by Frederick Dawson, a leading concert pianist and former pupil of Grieg. He in turn was succeeded by J Fletcher Sykes in 1920; some time in the early 1930s the latter was briefly followed by F W Sykes, about whom nothing is known.
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