wrote her Cavatina and Moravian Dance for the Wihans.

supremely contemptuous of the miserable fin de siecle church showmen who to draw fashionable audiences did not fear to offer the attraction of cavatinas and waltzes rendered on the cathedral organ by manufacturers of profane music, by ballet mongers and comic opera-wrights.

McDowall's piece, aptly named Cavatina at Midnight, makes reference to thecelebrated cavatina of Beethoven's op 130 string quartet, to Keats's Ode to aNightingalewritten in a garden just a couple of roads away from Christ Church nearly twocenturies agoand to the famous recording of cellist Beatrice Harrison in nocturnal duet witha nightingale in her own garden.