Eric Wetherell, musical polymath who was a BBC producer and wrote operas and TV music – obituary
Eric Wetherell, musical polymath who was a BBC producer and wrote operas and TV music – obituary Wetherell's father gave him a secondhand trumpet and the youngster taught himself to play it before doing the same with the French horn Wetherell: a raconteur with a fund of stories about musicians from his long life Eric Wetherell, who has died aged 95, was a composer, conductor, arranger and radio producer. His two operas A Foreign Field and The Snow Child, written in later life, gained traction, but he was never one to be pigeonholed, working across jazz and classical music, conducting orches...
Source: telegraph.co.uk