sentences:  She was discovered in 1928 by Harry Farjeon, who prompted her to receive formal music training, which she took up at the Royal Academy of Music for the next four years.While at the academy, where she studied composition, timpani, and conducting, Tate composed a number of pieces including an operetta entitled "The Policeman’s Serenade".She was very self-critical, and destroyed all of her compositions from before the mid 1940s.