David has been commissioned by the Friends of the Williamson Art Gallery & Wirral Museums to design and paint a new window for the refectory at Birkenhead Priory.
The window is dedicated to the composer, pianist and writer, Cyril Meir Scott who was born in Oxton in a house high enough to afford distant views of the Welsh hills. In his childhood Scott showed prodigious musical ability. His Welsh mother Mary Griffiths always claimed her son could play the piano before he could talk. At the age of 12 he moved to Frankfurt to begin his serious musical education. As his abilities progressed he gained a substantial reputation becoming friends with Ravel, Faure and Debussy.
In 1927 Cyril Scott wrote the guitar solo "Sonatina" for Andres Segovia. For many years this was considered lost but subsequently rediscovered in 2001 among Segovia's papers.
The background of the new window is a copy of the original manuscript for the piece by Scott while in the foreground is a portrait of the composer and a classical guitar, Opus X, hand made by the late British guitar maker C. M. Fleeson (1934 - 1985), Manchester 1972.