Tribute to English Music

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 25, 4 January 1929, Page 23

Tribute to English Music

IN an article headed "Queen’s Hall," a contributor to the "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" writes :--"England in general is not a musical nation. At any rate, her known composers can be conveniently counte:1 on the fingers of one’s hands. Against this, the Englishman has, in a great measure, made his own another capability which is, per-haps-let us say so quietly-just as good. The Englishman understands how to make music. He does not, it is true, understand production, but he does understand reproduction. "The English broadcasting organisation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, was at once able to make these remarkable properties of the Queen’s and Albert Halls its own. Who does not remember-in so far as he can obtain distant reception-the great ngtional concerts of the winter of 1926-27, in which, among others, the best Ger.

POSTURE USUTET man conductors and composers directed the giant orchestras, wielding the baton over orchestras of 250 performers? And ir spite of these giant sound effects it will’ have been already remarked at that time that the reproduction through the London and Daventry stations was throughout perfect, that here was offered a broadcasting enjoyment capable of satisfying the most fastidious music-lover. "Let no radio listener who can mans: age it with his receiving set neglect to hear the Promenade Concerts, and, in winter, the National Concerts. For the English know indeed how to make . music !"