LONDON COMPOSER HAS SUCCESS WITH QUINTET WRITTEN ON TRAINS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18644, 22 December 1928, Page 4

LONDON COMPOSER HAS SUCCESS WITH QUINTET WRITTEN ON TRAINS.

(Special to the “ Star.’ ) LONDON. October 3. Though it was composed partly in railway trains and on the deck of an Atlantic finer, a piano quintet by Mr 11. Waldo Warner, a London musician, lias just won an important prize in an American music competition open to the world. Mr Warner plays the viola in the London String Quartet. With Signor Carlo Jachino. of Italy, he is sharing the second prize of £BOO in the conipe tition organised by the Musical Fttnd Society of Philadelphia for chamber music compositions. More than 600 competitors submitted works. Mr Warner, who lives at Esmond Road, Chiswick, said: .“Through years of training I have learnt to make myself oblivious to my surroundings when 1 am composing. The important thing is the mood. I might be unable to compose in a quiet spacious room because I was not in the mood to do so, but if I was in the mood I could work wherever I might be. “As 1 am very busy as a rule I had to compose this quintet wherever 1 could. Some of it I wrote while I was travelling in trains in the North of England and Scotland. I also wrote part of it on the deck of the liner which took me over to New York last year. I work entirely on paper and do not compose on the piano. “I only finished copying out the quintet in New York on December 30, the day before sending-in day. and on the following day my wife took the manuscript to Philadelphia.” Mr Warner was taught at the Guildhall School lor Music under Mr Orlando Morgan.