DAVID BRYNLEY (Tenor)
NORMAN NOTLEY (Baritone)
JEAN POUGNET (Violin)
DAVID BRYNLEY, like many another natural tenor, comes from Wales. He was born in 1902 at Laugharne, a little town on the banks of the Towy, in Carmarthenshire. One
day Raymond Jeremy , the viola and quartet player, beard him there and brought him to London to study. His first important concert was that given by the promoters of the Gervase Elwes Fund and there he had his first important success. He has since appeared not only on the concert platforms of London and the provinces, but on the stage at the Everyman Theatre in Arne's Love in a Village and with the Phoenix Society. His programmes are usually distinguished by their preference for folk songs, pastorals, and the pre-romantic type of ballad.
NORMAN NOTLEY'S career as a recital singer has been twice interrupted. He was born in Hastings in 1890, and in due course studied analytical chemistry at London University. The only result of that was that he became a singer, ! and at twenty-four was appointed head of the vocal department at the McGill University Conservatorium of Music at Montreal. Then came his first interruption—the war. After demobilisation he began again in London, and with every success. In 1921 he was appointed Professor at the Royal College of Music in London, and in 1924 came his second interruption. In that year he joined the English Singers, that famous pioneer choir of modern madrigalists, made extensive tours with them and helped, as the baritone of the party, to make fresh musical history by a revival of much glorious music of past ages presented in a form and manner that are in themselves an echo of history.