Jesus Christ the Apple Tree - Zenith Harmony

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Jesus Christ the Apple Tree - Zenith Harmony

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Elizabeth Poston (1905-87)

Elizabeth Poston was born in Highfield House in Pin Green, which is now the site of Hampson Park in Stevenage. She became friends with the writer E.M.Forster who lived nearby and who wrote A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India. Poston attended the Royal Academy of Music in London, and was encouraged by both Peter Warlock and Ralph Vaughan Williams. She composed and performed, and also studied architecture and collected folk songs.

During World War II Poston joined the BBC and composed scores for radio and television productions, working with C. S. Lewis, Dylan Thomas, others. Her carols, especially “Jesus Christ the Apple Tree”, (1967) remain widely performed. In total there are over 300 compositions, some still to be (re)discovered. Poston died at in 1987 aged 81.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Poston