MUSIC FOR TRANQUILITY
Pointing out that "the Tranquil Mind has become of great national importance," Sir Walford Davies, in a recent broadcast emphasised the fact that "the Tranquil Mind is best sustained by dwelling upon things that are constant.” "I think specially of i four constants," he continued. "the loveliness of Nature; good music: good poetry; and friendship. Tonight of these four we think specially of music. One officer in the last war told me that it was one gramophone record of the Bach Double Concerto in his dug-out that made twelve months of hell bearable. A wounded boy in France said to me one day in an unforgettably simple way. 'lf you've got the wind up there's nothing like a song to get it down’; and I think it was the same boy who gave mo a shabby little book of German soldier songs in which I found the very same song that we were singing on our side of the line at the time all day long ourselves.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1939, Page 7
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170MUSIC FOR TRANQUILITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1939, Page 7
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