MUSIC NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1375, 31 August 1916, Page 34

MUSIC NOTES.

(By

“G” String.)

The Royal Philharmonic Society of London recently celebrated its hundred and fourth anniversary.

When the London Queen’s Hall Orchestra gave a symphony concert recently, the fact that forty of the men wore “Derby Armlets,” denoting that they had volunteered for the war, made a deep impression upon the audience.

Edward Kent, who was shot for actively participating in the Dublin Rebellion, was an excellent exponent of the Irish Villeann bagpipes, and a keen student of Irish music. Born in the city of Galway in 1881, he went to Dublin in 1899. In 1900 he was one of the founders of the Pipers’ Club, and was an enthusiast’c Gaelic Leaguer, translating his name as “Eamonn Ceannt.” He was adjudicator in the bagpipes competit’ons at the Feis Cevil in 1914 and 1915. For many years an ardent Sinn Feiner, he jo’ned the Dublin Rebellion in Easter week as an Irish Volunteer, and apprehended and condemned to death by court-martial, he was shot on May 6.

Dr. Walford Davies, one of England’s foremost organists and composers, is worthily engaging himself in teaching some of Great Britain’s soldiers to sing. He frequently visits the great training ground at Adershot and conducts training classes in singing. Mr. John McCormack has forwarded the sum of £lBOO to the Lord Mayor of Dublin, tje proceeds of the concert given by the Irish tenor in New York for the Dublin Relief Fund.