Publications

   (authored by Keith Davies Jones unless otherwise stated)

St David’s Day in Winnipeg

Y Drych  Vol 147  No 4  p11   1998

Pob Organ mewn Cywair

Y Drych   Vol 148  Number 2   Chwef. 99  p21

Ninnau   Vol 24   No 4  Feb 99  p15

Welsh Music Weekend in Winnipeg

Yr Enfys  Gaeaf 1998/9   pp15-16

Winnipeg to Host Welsh Music Weekend

Y Drych    Vol.148  No.5  p20  1999

& Ninnau  Vol.24  No.7  p21  1999

Cymdeithas Dewi Sant holds Festival

Y Drych  Vol.148  No.10  p17 Hydref 1999

Rhian Davies

Welsh Music goes Global

Welsh Music   Vol  10   No 3   Autumn 1999   pp24-25

Rhian Davies

Morfydd Remembered

Royal Academy of Music Newsletter

No.19   January 2001  p46

St David’s Day in Winnipeg

Ninnau Vol 27 No 6 April 2002 p25

We re-started with a song

Cymdeithas Dewi Sant Winnipeg

Enfys, Hydref 2002, p24-25

Winnipeg’s Annual Carols by Candlelight

Ninnau Vol 28  No.3  January 2003  p14-15

The St David’s Singers of Winnipeg

Ninnau   Vol 31  No.1   November 2005  p19

The Welsh Church in Winnipeg

Ninnau Vol 32  No. 8  June 2007  pp 1 & 16

Owen Hughes ‘Glascoed’

Enfys, Rhif 15/07  Hâf 2007  tud. 6

The Welsh Church in Winnipeg

The Manitoba Historical Society Newsletter

Vol 39 No 5   July/August 2007 pp 11 - 12

Llythyr o Ganada : Fy Mywyd Cynnar

Cylchlythyr y Gymdeithas Feddygol

Cyfres newydd  : Rhif 14, Hydref 2010, tt. 7-8

Faces of our United Kingdom Community

(Britannia on the Prairies)

Winnipeg Free Press

April 28th 2012   pp J1 – J16

St David’s Day in Winnipeg

Ninnau Vol 38 #4  July/August 2013  p18

St David’s Day in Winnipeg

Ninnau  Vol 41 #3   May/June 2017   p21

‘Sea Sketches’  CBC  SMCD 5227,  Music for string orchestra played by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Roy Goodman.

‘Sea Sketches’ by Grace Williams,  ‘Divertimento’ by Gareth Walters, ‘Two Pieces’ and ‘Sonata for Strings’ by Sir William Walton, and ‘Serenade’ by Peter Warlock.  

Grace Williams’ inspiration for ‘Sea Sketches’ was, of course, the many moods of the sea as she saw them every day from her home on the Glamorgan coast.  Gareth Walters based his ‘Divertimento’ on rhythmic and melodic elements present in Welsh folk-song.  Both pieces, which may now be regarded as ‘core’ Welsh repertoire, have been available on disc before, in the excellent recording made in 1970 by the English Chamber Orchestra under David Atherton (Welsh Music for Strings, Decca SXL 6468, nla).  This recording caught the attention of the young Roy Goodman, who conducted both works in the 1970’s with the Reading Youth Orchestra, and he has clearly retained a considerable affection for them. They now make a welcome return to the catalogue in this newly released recording by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. Goodman is a little quicker in both pieces than Atherton, but his approach is basically very similar.  Both works receive idiomatic and committed performances. Peter Warlock composed 'Serenade’ at his home in mid-Wales during the years 1921 and 1922.  Goodman’s interpretation is lilting and warm-hearted, tending to emphasise this music’s affinities to Elizabethan dance, graceful and a little amorous.  Walton’s ‘Sonata for Strings’, a transcription of his String Quartet in A minor, receives a robust and stylish performance.  There is fine playing by the MCO throughout, and excellent notes are provided by Don Anderson.  The CD cover features a striking painting by Canadian artist Franklin Carmichael.

unpublished review by kdj (2003)