Dr. Walford Davies' Adjectives for the New Music An appeal for greater interest in the teaching of music in our schools was made by Dr. Walford Davies, the eminent musician and Director of Music to the Welsh University, 4 an address which he delivered to the Swansea Education Committee.
Dr. Davies advocated Ten minutes of '"Cheerio" songs daily.
Weekly concert of 40 minutes'
duration.
Weekly lesson in true writing.
By the latter means, he asserted, the children of Wales could turn out 8 million tunes a year.
Jazz music, Dr. Davies declared to be "'positively iniquitous, positively immoral, and positively per-vicious.""
The gramophone, he thought, was making for perfection, and improvements were being made in it that would be of great educational value.
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