ABSTRACT
On 12 January 1930, Walford Davies ( 1869-1941 ) wrote a letter to The Times expressing the conviction that only when an efficient wireless and gramophone room had become a matter of routine equipment in every school would we be able to establish music firmly throughout national life. Although this was a long-term prospect, he declared there were a thousand musical pioneers using the new media, ‘already changing the face of school music’ (BBC Written Archives, 1929-1936, 11 February, 1930).
