Remark and Repartee in Music.
Sir Walford Davies
The series of talks ' Music and the Ordinary Listener', which was so successful last season, is now being continued from a fresh angle of approach. The present speakers have been invited to talk to listeners more as friends than as lecturers. They will each concentrate upon one of the varied pleasures of listening, which they themselves have found fascinating, and compare this experience with those of their audience.
Sir Walford Davies opened last week the series with six talks on ' Remark and Repartee in Music ' : the ability of every kind of melodist to ' make a musical remark ' and to clinch it with apt melodic repartee. Examples played at the piano during these talks will range from chants to symphonies, and from the ' Blue Danube ' to the ' Giant Fugue ' ; and listeners will be asked to cite relevant examples which they may desire to hear quoted in the course of the talks.