EDGAR BAINTON

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 27, 11 January 1935, Page 9

EDGAR BAINTON

Outstanding Australign Composer HDGAR BAINTON. Principal of the New South Wales State Conservatorium- gf Music, wis represented on. the programme at 4YA on Thursday, January 10, when a group of five of his songs were sung by Madame GoossensViceroy, the Belgian dramatic soprano, who is on Mr. Bainton’s staff in Sydney. Apart from being a conductor and solo pianist of outstanding ability Vidgar Bainton is one of those music-ians-who looks back with gratitude to

having enjoyed Sir Charles Villiers Stanford’s teaching at the Royal College. «iver a firm believer in the younger generation of British musicians, Sir Charles exerted a potent influence for good in helping them to stand on their own feet and encouraged them to composing efforts in the days when native art had to struggle against. foreign bias on the part of the pubiic. Hdgar Bainton’s compositions cover a wide range from songs to symphonies and it is our loss not to be more familiar with his various works. Apart from the four more or less wasted years (1914-1918) he spent in internment in Ruhleben Camp in Germany, his career has been the vusy one that falls to the lot of a man who as professor and later as principal of the Newcastle Conservatorium of

Music. exerted a potent influence in the North of England. His choral works, concerto, symphony, songs and various controibutions in other departments cr music marks Edgar Bainton out as one who is destined to leaye his mark on the musical future of the Commonwealth,