AN historic concert takes place in Tavistock Parish Church at 7.30pm on November 9 ? the music is entirely from talented local composers.

Notable among these is Dr Harold C Lake who became organist of Plymouth Presbyterian Church at 16, Mutley Baptist Church, St Catherine?s and Emmanuel until moving to Tavistock PC where he was organist and choirmaster until shortly before his death in 1961.

Dr Lake founded the Plymouth Madrigal Society, later Plymouth Philharmonic Choir. His many compositions, performed widely, include his best-loved extended work, ?The Early Spring Song? for choir and orchestra. The Hallé orchestra and choir gave at least three performances.

Dr Lake?s talent lives on in the person of his pupil, Pearce Richards, Tavistock?s present organist and choirmaster.

Dr Harry Moreton began playing at the age of ten and was organist of St Andrew?s Church, Plymouth for 73 years, City organist for over 50 years and broadcast regularly. A prolific composer, his setting of ?God is a Spirit? is particularly widely used.

John Yolland, a musician for 62 years, was organist and choirmaster in churches in South Africa, at Singapore Cathedral, then was at St Mary?s Plympton for 24 years. He was Secretary and Education Training Officer of the Royal School of Church Music, Devon Area.

He has directed and accompanied choral societies, Gilbert and Sullivan Operas etc. John?s anthem ?Praise the Lord?, gained first prize in the 1992 Horatio Lumb Competition.

Jonathan Crow began to play at six. He spent 12 years as an organist in London. He was briefly organist and choirmaster of Emmanuel Church but moved to Bristol. Jonathan has written musicals, psalm settings, songs and large-scale settings of the Gloria and Te Deum.

Jason Smart, from Cowes, Isle of Wight, began at twelve.

He was Organ Scholar at St George?s Chapel, honorary organist to Bristol University?s Willis Choir and accompanies the Rochester Cathedral Special Choir on concert tours in the USA and Germany.

He specialises in pre-Reformation Tudor church music. He has won awards in America including the respected Don Malin Memorial Award. His variations on ?Veni Creator Spiritus? will be performed at St Eustachius.

Exultimus, the choir especially formed for the event, is conducted by Philip Liddicoat who, after Dr Moreton, was Organist and Choirmaster at St Andrew?s Plymouth for many years.

Admission to this memorable concert is free, with a retiring collection. Profits will go to the church and the Plymouth National Young Organist?s Competition.