Education
Royal Academy of Music.
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Cole went to Saint Olave"s Grammar School, where he in fact almost lost his scholarship there because "his music was getting in the way of his studies". His appointment in 1930 as organist at Street Martin"s Church, Dorking and music master at Dorking County School a year later, led to his conducting local choirs at the neighbouring Leith Hill Musical Festival, founded by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The war years were spent at the Air Ministry, though he continued his choral conducting in his spare time, and in 1945 he succeeded to the Chair of Harmony and Composition at the Royal Academy of Music where he remained until 1962.
While there, he directed the People"s Palace Choral Society from 1947-1963 and succeeded Vaughan Williams as conductor of the Leith Hill Festival in 1954.
By this time, Cole was an authority on the composer"s music, having worked with him since pre-war days and been his assistant since 1947 - conducting the works that were not to Vaughan Williams" liking - and for the next twenty-three years the Festival went from strength to strength under Cole"s leadership. He will, however, be best remembered in musical circles for his work as Master of the Music at the Queen"s Chapel of the Savoy from 1954-1994.
During forty years of sustained work he trained the Savoy choir (the choirboys are also provided by Saint Olave"s Grammar School) and composed many pieces for them - a Te Deum, Lord"s Prayer and State Prayers (of which copies still exist in his handwriting), not to mention "A Prelude on While Shepherd"s Watched" for organization He also gave an annual Bach organ recital, and this recital, along with two others, continues at the Savoy every summer.
Outside of music, Cole"s main interest was stained glass, and largely as a result of his expertise in this field he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (Federal Security Agency) in 1979.
In 1993 he published a book entitled A Catalogue of Netherlandish and North European Roundels in Britain.
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