ANNOUNCERS' ERRORS
Sir,-I have made no slip about "O Filii et Filiae" as your Music Department seems to think in your footnote to my letter. Sir Walford Davies did not compose this work. The announcer said "by Davies." Davies may have written a harmony to the tune or air, as many other people have’ done — eg., E. W. Goldsmith and S. Webbe in his "Motetts and Antiphons" (1792), The point is that Davies is not the composer of "O Filii et Filiae," but merely an arranger or harmoniser. If the announcer had said "arranged by Davies," I would have found no fault with him.
H. H.
FOUNTAIN
(New Brighton).
(The Music Department makes this further comment: "In his first letter the Rev. H. H. Fountain said that Sir Walford Davies merely conducted the St. George’s Chapel Choir in ‘O Filii_ et Filiae.’ This is not only misleading, but does less than justice to a great church composer. Davies did far more than that. If arrangers and users of traditional tunes are to be particularised, the NBS will have to besprinkle future broadcasts of major works with explanatory notes upon all those parts which (as Mr. Fountain probably knows) were never actually the invention of Bach, Handel, Wagner, Sullivan, Tchaikovski, and numerous others. This would be pedantry run mad.’’]
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 310, 1 June 1945, Page 5
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