Edward Elgar (1857-1934) was noted by some to be the greatest English composer since George F. Handel, but today, most Americans only have familiarity with “Pomp and Circumstance” (1901). Like Claude Debussy, a contemporary and, perhaps, the greatest of the French composers, he would die of inoperable colorectal cancer. Graduations are an important point in life – a chance to reflect on all that h…
