MODERN RUSSIAN MUSIC

Evening Star, Issue 22144, 26 September 1935, Page 7

MODERN RUSSIAN MUSIC

LECTURE BY DR V. E. GALWAY The second of a series of lectures on modern music was given last evening by Dr V. E. Galway before a large and interested audience in the Training College building. Tho lecturer from the outset referred to the very recent development of music as an art in Russia, stressing the importance of Russian folk songs and tho welding of this into a real national expression by the first Russian composer, Glinka, more than a hundred years ago. The breakdown of the isolation of Russia, said Dr Galway, caused the establishment of a conservertorium of music in Petrograd, based on European lines. A famous band of five composers collaborated to preserve tho nationalisation " of the music of the country. Dr Galwav outlined the life and the ideals of Tchaikovsky, and dealt with the modern musical trend in Russia. The theories and the ideals of the two most discussed modern composers, Stavinsky and Seransky, _ were ■ explained, the lecturer referring to the changing viewpoint at different periods of their respective careers. The practical features _of harmony, rhythm, and orchestration in their works were lucidly explained. Dr Galway illustrated the lecture on the Capehart gramophone with ‘ The Romeo and Juliet’ overture and tho * Ballet Suite ’ (Tchaikovsky). Continuing the series of lectures, Dr Galway will next week deal with the problems of impressionalism, taking ns his compositional subjects tho works of Debussy and Delius.