A centenary feature based on the life of Joseph Parry , the collier boy who won fame in the world of music
The part of Joseph Parry is played by Philip Phillips
Choruses sung by the Dowlais United
Choir
Conductor, D. T. Davies
Script by Jack Jones
Produced by T. Rowland Hughes
All who have heard a Welsh choir singing Dr. Parry's Aberystwyth or 'Dies Irae' will want to know something of the life of this remarkable man, who was born at
Merthyr Tydfil one hundred years ago, rose from struggling poverty to so eminent a position in the world of music, and died at Penarth in 1903 This centenary feature will present many dramatic incidents in his life, in Wales, London, and America', and will reveal the mission of a collier boy to express the soul of Wales.