From THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS GALLERY,
BIRMINGHAM
THE UNITY QUARTET: PAUL BEARD (1st Violin); ERNEST ELEMENT
(2nd Violin);FRANK VENTON (Viola); JOHAN HOCK (Violoncello) rpHIS is not by any means the first occasion
L on which listeners have had a chance of hearing the chamber music of Alfred M. Wall. He has also taken part himself in chamber music programmes, as violinist. A distinguished student of the Royal College of Music in London, he has been a Professor at the Newcastle Conservatoire of Music for a good many years, and has done notable work in that city as a director of its chamber concerts.
His own music, modern in feeling and outlook, has yet none of the terrifying dissonance which so many present-day composers have taught us to expect. His chamber music especially is quite logically descended from the traditions of an older day. His first quartet gained a Carnegie Award in 1921, and the judges spoke of it as a welcome and useful addition to the repertory of pianoforte quartets, calling it ' a work rich in colour and varied in expression.'