Phillip Sear plays a 1919 piece by the British composer Alfred William Rawlings (1860–1924) writing under the pseudonym ‘Florence Fare’.
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Rawlings was the brother of the composer Charles Arthur Rawlings (1857–1919) and both were well-known for writing under multiple pseudonyms. Charles used over 60, and Alfred used around 30. IMSLP gives these pseudonyms for Alfred: Dressler, Max. Dumas, Gustav. Fare, Florence. Fortescue, Edith. Gordon, Stanley. Henry, Hamilton. Hope, Marcus. Jasper, Louis. Lemoine, Felix. Melrose, Gladys. Tchakoff, Ivan. Morriss, Guy. Natale, Tito. Saint-Quentin, Edward. Stephanoff, Ivan. Templeman, Horace. Therese, Jules. Tree, Lionel. White, Constance. Charles is better-known today, particularly under the name Theo Bonheur.

This piece is not particularly Hawaiian (as far as I can tell!). The sheet music cover is quite amusing. Published by the short-lived Herman Darewski music publishing business, it has a list of ‘morceaux’ by ’eminent composers’. Four different composer names are shown, and all of them are pseudonyms of Alfred Rawlings !

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Played by Phillip Sear
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