 Together with his elder brother Francis he composed incidental music for "The Well in the Wood", a "pastoral masque" by C. M. A. Peake; and was sole creator of the scenario and music for a short ballet, "The Fairy Cap", first given at His Majesty's Theatre in 1911, revived for charity performance the following year.By 1913 Toye was conducting in major London theatres – for Maurice Maeterlinck's "Blue Bird" at the Haymarket Theatre, Marie Brema's opera season at the Savoy Theatre, and for the première of Bernard Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion".In 1914, he was entrusted by Ralph Vaughan Williams with conducting the première of his London Symphony at the Queen's Hall.