1966

Founding member Sir Steuart Wilson passes away.

As Vice President of the Council for Music in Hospitals and Music Director of the Arts Council and later the BBC, Steuart has been a great champion for the benefits of live music and the charity is greatly saddened by his death. Towards the end of the 1960s, the Council for Music in Hospitals comes into financial difficulty and concert numbers drop. A staff member at Central Hospital Warwick writes: “It would be preferable to have concerts more entertaining than cultural.”