MOTHERS MEET

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 14

MOTHERS MEET

"WALES AND ITS MUSIC"

There was a large attendance o£ members at the June meeting of the Seatoun branch of the League of Mothers. Mrs. W. R. B. Oliver presided and welcomed the many visitors present, including members of the Welsh Choir. Mrs. McCaul, an absent member, provided the thought for the month: "Shadow and sun—so too our lives are made; yet think how great the sun, how small the shade." The Rev. Canon Davies delivered an address on "Wales and Its Music. Wales, he said, had been called the land of song, and the love of music was a marked characteristic of the Welsh people, music having played a great part in Welsh history right through the ages. Wtlsh music was essentially harp music, and exhibited in almost every phrase evidence of the influence of that instrument upon the country's development. No institution had done more to foster the knowledge of music in Wales than the Eisteddfod. In furtherance of musical culture Welsh musicians had from remote times held musical meetings at which harpists and other performers were present from various parts of the country. Competitions took place and the affairs of the profession discussed. "The word Eisteddfod," said the speaker, "means a sitting or an assembly and dates back to the seventh century." Various songs to illustrate the speaker's talk were sung beautifully by the Welsh Choir, who appeared in characteristic Welsh ; costume.

Afternoon tea and the singing of the Welsh • national anthem concluded the programme