S.B. from Cardiff
NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF WALES
(Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Cymru) (Leader, ALBERT VOORSAnGER )
Conducted by WARWICK BBAITHWAITE
SINCE its very early days tho B.B.C. has been exploring ways and means of helping local enterprise in music, and last year these efforts bore their first fruit in the shape of the National Orchestra of Wales. With Sir
Walford Davios as ambassador, a co-operation was arranged with the Cardiff civic authorities, the National Council of Music, the National Museum of Wales and the B.B.C, so that a permanent orchestra might come into being. The first British orchestra which may fairly claim the title 'National ' is now firmly established ; Wales and Cardiff aro justly proud of it.
Sineo its inauguration in the early part of last year, the orchestra has given regular Symphony and Popular Concerts on Thursdays and Saturdays in the City Hall, Cardiff, and four times a week, at midday or in the afternoon, free concerts in the National Museum of Wales. Many of these have been broadcast from both Welsh stations of the B.B.C., giving listeners in. that musical part of Britain such opportunities of learning to enjoy the best orchestral music of every school and age and type as very fow corners of the Empire enjoy.