 In the same year Brunskill sang under Wood in a rare performance of Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony ("Symphony of a Thousand").Early in Wood's autumn 1940 season at Queen's Hall, Brunskill sang Brahms's "Alto Rhapsody", ("jolly well", according to Wood).Brunskill sang the role of the Angel in "The Dream of Gerontius" conducted by Malcolm Sargent on 10 May 1941, the last concert given in the Queen's Hall, which was destroyed by a German incendiary bomb that night in an air raid.