Towards the end of his life Sir Edward Elgar dedicated a 'Nursery Suite" to two young
princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret and their mother, says music historian Monsignor
Philip Whitmore: "Elgar jotted down a few notes about each movement in the suite.
' The first one', he said, 'should call up memories of happy and peaceful awakenings:
the music flows in a serene way; a fragment of a hymn tune is introduced, a hymn
written for little children when the composer was a youth.' ...The first movement
of the nursery suite is about waking in the morning. The hymn - tune comes in quietly
at first, then towards the end, it's repeated more loudly, and it dies away to a peaceful
close: the day has begun."