After all this it will be easy to understand why we all enjoyed ourselves so much at a public rehearsal for the Royal Philharmonic Society at Queen's Hall when Sargent was rehearsing an occasional piece written for Coronation Year by Vaughan Williams, making comments on and proposing alterations to the orchestration. We were suddenly startled by a shout from the back of the hall: "Hey! What are you doing to my piece?" Unnoticed, the composer had been there all the time.