Percy Eastman Fletcher

Fountain Reverie

The Fountain Reverie features soft, rippling arpeggios with a contrasting middle section. As with the Festival Toccata, published at the same time, the brilliance of Fountain Reverie disguises the fact that one does not need tobe a virtuoso to play it well and effectively, and it plays well on many different Organs. Percy Fletcher was an English composer, conductor and Orchestrator of prodigious output who made his career in the lively world of theLondon music theatre of the years of the late 19th and early 20th century. He was music director at many theatres, including His Majesty's Theatre for the last seventeen years of his life. He was the Orchestrator andconductorfor the big budget spectacular theatre piece Chu Chin Chow which ran for five years, a record that remained unbroken for forty years. In addition to his myriad works of light music, Fletcher also wrote a serious churchcantata, The Passion of Christ, as well as the delightful children's work, The Walrus and the Carpenter.