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and for nearly two-thirds of my life and have heard mag- nificent singing by English choirs in the concert hall and at Innumerable compe- tition festivals, that there is no singing on earth like that of a Welsh choir.

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MONDAY, SEIT. 7, 1936.

ENGLISH AS WORLD

LANGUAGE

It is a thoughtful dispen- sation of Providence which provides that if one Welsh valley is manned by tenors the next will be manned by basses und so also there will be a neat division between sopranos

contralto and among the womenfolk.

The Almighty clearly knew that there would be song in the heart of every son and daughter of Wales, and pro- vided the means for its expression.

Thus the Eisteddfod is a Welsh habit, Dozens and dozens of Eisteddfodau take

place in Wales every year. They are nearly as 'common as England's garden partles and bazaars, and they are often promoted for the same reason. The peak of all this music- making, however, in the national Eisteddfod, which takes place once a year, alternating between North

and South Wales.

No other festival on earth

It is a sign of the times that articles have appeared of inte the with some frequency in world's press urging renewed I nearly ict Love go slipping through my fingers-Fox Trat. efforts to establish a common Got to dance my way to Heaven-Fox Trot.

lignage as a means of communi- Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. eation between all nations. Al- Jay Wilbur's Orchestra, though it would be difficult to Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. Isolate the separate causes which lead to the periodic revival of Johnson's Orchestra. this demand for a common world is like it. The outward similarity Johnson's Orchestra. language, it is in times of in-between the national Elsteddfod ternational tension and disquiet- of Wales and a big musicnt com→ ude that the agitation for. a universal tongue-an agitation persistently carried on in all civilized countries by groups more or less numerically strong-sud- denly assumes an urgency which

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Chater Road,endemic spheres. It is as if poor harassed mankind, uneasy through disunion, were cowering before a growing, spirit of un- friendliness which it dislikes but cannot stem. If only the in- dividual nationals of one country could speak with those of other countries whose views differ from their own, then surely they would understand each other's point of: view and all would be well. The

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petition festival in England is mis- leading, for there is no national competitive festival in England, even in name, whereas the great sunual festival of Wales Is national in fact as well as in name.

It is national because the audi- ence assembles from all over the Principality-indeed, from all over the world, for always at some time during the week Welshmen from overseas are called on to the plat- form, and they always fonn a large company.

It is national also in its influ- ence. To sin a first prize in your class at the National Eisteddfod is to be guaranteed a full diary of professional engagements during the ensuing year,

I am not saying that this is en- tirely a goed thing, for it is one of

says Dr.

SYDNEY NORTHCOTE

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font of the adjudicators at the recent Welsh Eisteddfod-born in Wales Ductor of in 1897-wan a first prize at the 1908 Elsteddfod now d

Music and Professor at the Guildhall School of Musle).

Much the same ceremonial will be seen

Caernarvon last year.

the commonest criticisms that it tends to lead the singers and players of Wales to be too easily satisfied, to mistake for the top rung of the ladder something that may be no more than evidence that they are fitted by nature to climb.

However, there is the fact: Success at a National. Eisteddfod does have national repercussions.

Another respect in which the Elsteddfod is national is that, though the festival in confined to a Alagle week, it spires activities throughout the year.

At each Eisteddfod the full pro- gramme ind test. plcees for the next year are on sale, and as soon as the competitors have finished here they will begin work on next year's test" pieces.

They will sing those test pleces, perhaps at a local Eisteddfod, cer- Lainly at local concert, to raise the funds to carry them to the next

national competition.

Now it is quite easy for any foreigner (and, during Elsteddfod week at any rate, that includes any Englishman) to attend this great event and come away with wagon-load of lofty criticisms. It

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at Fishguard as at

is no part of my business to state or answer those criticisms; but I ask the sourest critic if he can deny that the whole thing throbs with life and is punctuated with a thousand thrilla.

Picture the vast pavilion, speci- ally built for the occasion, Into which ten thousand people will be packed day after day for whole week. Let us go inside.

Suppose we begin with one of the solo classes. If you have ever been at any competition festival you will discover little that is new here. But you will not mind if I pause to dream for a moment.

To you, that ttlo fellow who is coming on to play his piece is just one of a procession of pianists. But I have stood in his shoes,

I

AM remembering the months of polishing of that test plece, and I know what he felt like as he sat listening to the com- * petitors who preceded him, his heart getting nearer and nearer to hik boots as he felt that it was im- possible for him to give a better

ISN'T 'and Co.,' ENOUGH?

great difficulty is, of course, to one! It may be of interest to know which language to adopt as examine a few of the reasons the common means of speech, which recommend English as a

I have Enthusiasm for atl artificial secondary language for the FOR several years

adopted the fashionable' secondary language has waned; tions of the world. First of all, the very fact of the artificiality English is already the language policy of waiting for someone of such languages being probably of about 250 million people, or else to take a lead in denouncing

At

the

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G. M. Murray

performance than some of those: he had heard from his fellow finalists.

You see, it is not only a prize: that is at stake. There is the Journey back home, and this is a serious matter, for every com- petitor is the accepted ambassa-· dor of his town or village.

Bo if lo returns home without a prize he cannot expect more than

pollte reception; but if he goes.

home with the prize, every living soul in the village will be at the station to mees him, and they will seize him before the train has stopped.. carry him shoulder high.. and a brass band will lead the whole procession to his home.

Now let us go and hear something on a bigger scale. It is Wednesday afternoon and we are to hear the chief choral competition. Every square inch of the corru- gated-Iron-roofed building cccupied.

Immediately we meet an official of a kind that may be new to you. He is addresing the audience in a penetrathin voice as we, enter. Every-. thing about him, is cam- manding.

Neither ten thousand nor a hundred thousand people will Intimidate him. If they are restive he will quieten. them. If they are hot or bored with waiting, he will soon have them roaring with laughter or singing their hends off.

He is called the conductor. and is a sort of professional chairman, and he is a genius at his job. Now he raises his hand. Flve ndjudicators are taking their cents at a table in the middle of the hall, looking suitably solemnt. Enter then the All ready.

first choir.

Here they come. Three hundred and Arty men and women, every eye on their leader, and a great silence as he takes the signal to begin and gives the opening beat to his singera.

BLESS me, I believe you

are getting, excited. That will take some beating, you say. Well, we'll sco, for here comes choir No. 2, and..then Choir No. 3 and, No. 4....

And so on. The adjudicators are now in session, and again the con- ductor is in command, holding the audience while the judges confer, perhaps dispute, and tot up marks. Again the conductor's hand is. raised, for the adjudicators are proceeding to the platform.

How. like a jury, returning with their verdict they must look to the competitors! The chairman pre- zenta the report, but everybody is waiting for the marks: and no adjudicator knows his job until he has learnt the trick of keeping the name and marks of the winners to his very last sentence.

It would be his last sentence Anyhow, for the cheers that have greeted every choir's assessment are sheer pandemonium when the winner of the first prize is known. Probably not more than a single mark will separate the frat choir from the second. And probably.

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they are familiar rivals who have fought and won and lost many a time before, and who will fight and lose and win many s time again.

Let us go out. We will find these town singers round about the Bomewhere we know where, but we are not telling.

Will you come back on Saturday The water suppliers are so proud afternoon when the chief male of their title that they want it writ-Tolce contest takes place?

the

ten twice over. "Croque should be Metropolitan Water Board, crossed made payable," they say, "to

But the worst of them all is the income-tax collector. He desires that cheques should be crossed with the lengthy name of his bank followed by the words, Commissioners of Taxes Alc.

responsible for their failure to nearly one-sixth of the entire the Cheques Should Bé Crossed appeal sufficiently to the public world population. It is the lan-Ramp.

I have waited in vain and of the various nations. A more guage of the seas, of commerce, natural choice would seem to lie of sport, and of modern science. now it is tax paying time (for among the great European lan-The objection has occasionally those of us who drive it off till afe Metropolitan Water Board." AN UNFORTUNATE

bren raised that, although the last minute), I can keep guages. Such a choice has indeed been discussed officially on various English grammar is simple, quiet no longer.

the difference between the

Therefore, I raise the standard of important occasions.

und the pronuncia-revolt on behalf of those who, liké Northern Peace Conference in spelling

tion of the words offers the myself, are always paying bills. Stockholm in 1919, national re-

We fill in forms. Order forms. presentatives were asked which foreign student a certain dif-

lléence forms, assessment forms, tongue they thought would be ficulty. Without this drawback,

passport forms. We are forced most suitable for universal use. which the English language

eventually to completo the most depressing form of all-the Of the fifty-four replies received shares with most other tongues,

cheque. This

dorte also is more than fifty per cent. selected it would probably have automa-

conscientiously, If a trifle sadly. English; one representative voted tfcally become the universal lan- guage. But all nations are con-

But there is usually a request at for German and eight for servative when it comes to a

the sight of which one worm at least French, while the artificial lan- question of tampering with the never falls to turn, it appears in guages Ido and, Esperanto had language handed down by their small type, generally at the foot of only five supporters. The over-forefathers, and the English are the account asking for payment. It

thus ap- perhaps more conservative than says, Cheques should be crossed.. whelming majority

most. Apart from this dif- peared to share the opinion ficulty, English is by far the of that eminent scholar and easiest modern language to E Postmaster-General, after re- minding me that I must seitle statesman, the late President learn, the grammar being sim for 374 local calls, asks me to cross Masaryk of Czecho-Slovakia, plicity itself. This is one reason the cheque ale payec.

The Road Fund people wish me who, when asked for his opinion perhaps, why it already holds}" regarding an artificial universal in many foreign schools the posi-to write Motor Tax

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The Electricity Company, the Gas Company, the Urban Councul, and vlready existed as the necessary culum; another is that it has the schoolmaster want me to insert bunk between world language, it would be a proved to be the most useful to the name of their waste of time to create a new the pupila in later life.

the parallel lines.

TH

HE chief mala Voice choir contest is like the English Cup Final at Wembley, or the Boat Race, or the Grand National, or ali these things rolled into one. It is a man's job on this Saturday after- noon and the rivalries are long- Why, having supplied a cheque), standing and deep-rooted.

the

over Did you

hear singing neatly printed with two lines, caballatie symbols & Co." and "Not like this we have heard on Wed- Negotiable," which make it perfectly nesday and Saturday afternoons? undertake this ad- It is not only matter of voices safe, should I

but of conviction; and I do not ditional clerical labour?

National Eisteddfod lay bare a What is so ominous is the dreadful care if the criticisms of the

our unanimity of those who raid

thousand faults, for there is some mengre henroosts. In other respects

the thing here that embraces every while they diverge. Thus, Urban Council bluntly DEMANDS section of the community and PAYMENT of its impositions, the In- makes the pulse of all Wales beat come-Tax man announces that Ap- eagerly.

And when the soverest critic bus .plication is hereby made, and the

waterworks declares that NOTICE is, shut his eyes to the best, and said his waspish worst about the rest, hereby given.

he has still to reckon with the fact that for a whole week the eyes, cars and voices of Wales bava bean employed in exalting gifts which are not material, but are riches af the mind and the spirit.

But they all agree that Chequea should be crossed..

There is salvation in that should. It is not a must..

In the absence of any threats of! hard labour or a,Ang if the endorse ment is not made, I refuse to bo intimidated.

In this matter I am a passive resister.

To-day's Thought OPPORTUNITY is the Dest captain of all endeavour.

SOPHOCLES