SCOTT GODDARD
Scott Goddard , who is a frequent contributor to THE RADIO Times, is second musical critic of The Morning Post. He began his musical career as a chorister at the Temple Church under Sir Walford Davies , and later went to the Royal College of Music, studying composition under Sir Charles Stanford and Charles Wood , organ under Sir Walter Parratt and Sir Walter Alcock , piano under Herbert Sharpe , and conducting under Adrian Boult. For six years he was music master at Leighton Park School, Reading, and then in 1925 became assistant musical critic of The Observer until 1929 when he joined the musical staff of The Morning Post.
This evening Mr. Goddard is giving the first of two talks on ' Meaning in Instrumental Music '. His purpose is to find out the significance of ' 'pure' music, that is to say, music that has no connection with words, as in opera and song. A symphony or a piano sonata must have a meaning or else it is nonsense, but its meaning is primarily a musical one. Composers, almost from the beginning of instrumental music up to the present day, have tried to use music to describe concrete images.
Can music do this? These are some of the points that Scott Goddard is going to discuss this evening, and he will illustrate his talk with gramophone records and examples on the piano.