Portsmouth Rolling Stones, and Fleetingwood Mac. Numerous musical works are set in the city. "Portsmouth Point" is an overture for orchestra by the English composer William Walton in 1925. The work was inspired by Thomas Rowlandson's etching depicting Portsmouth Point, otherwise known as "Spice Island" in Old Portsmouth. The overture was used for the BBC Proms Concert in 2007. "H.M.S. Pinafore" is a comic opera in two acts set in Portsmouth Harbour, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W.S. Gilbert. John Cranko's 1951 ballet "Pineapple Poll", which features the operetta music of "The Bumboat Woman's Story" by Gilbert and
Geoff Smith (music composer) Emily Brontë, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Elizabeth Siddal. Smith is a former student of English composer/double bassist Gavin Bryars. After fourteen years of inactivity a reformed Geoff Smith Band recorded several new tracks in early 2014 and made them available via SoundCloud. This latest incarnation of the group features Geoff (Piano & Keyboards), Nicola (Vocals), Adrian Utley (Guitars & Bass), James Woodrow (Guitar), and Clive Deamer (Drums). Geoff Smith (music composer) Geoff Smith (born 1966) is a British music composer, writer, and academic. Along with his wife, singer Nicola Walker Smith (born 1964), he has written