A celebration of the man who made the Promenade Concerts famous Sir Henry Wood (1869-1944), the great trainer of orchestral musicians, was the first in Britain to employ women in first class orchestras He conducted Britain's first production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at Queen's Hall his commitment to new music led to collaboration with composers such as Richard Strauss, Sibelius, Britten and Schoenberg The problems of Wood's complex personality and stressful private life are also revealed and his six decades of musical achievement displayed