Welsh Journals

Mansel Thomas, head of music for the B B c in Wales-who had com- missioned the work-conducted it sensitively, and the bbc Welsh Orchestra played with enthusiasm. I found myself wondering just when a new major Welsh choral work had impressed me so much and decided that I couldn't recall the occasion. And I wondered about that unnamed critic hunter at the national, and hoped that he might have listened and decided that modern Welsh composers can write for the choir after all. February, indeed, was an historic month for Daniel Jones. GENTLEMEN, PLEASE! If there are suicides tonight among the band of Irish supporters it would not surprise me. The Welsh crowd, aware as ever, of what was going on, were as silent as a concourse of Trappist monks. VIVIAN JENKINS, The Sunday Times. the ball was sizzling back like a hot billet on the rollers ofEbbw Vale. it was extruded so reluctantly and painfully that it might well have emerged a chippolata. H B TOFT. The Observer. Talk about the luck of the Irish-by the beard of Paddy McGinty's goat there was plenty of that. GARRY OWEN, The Empire News. Old Merlin himself must have been casting those Welsh spells. LLOYD LEWIS, The News of the World. WHAT THEY SAY The Welsh Tourist Board is bubbling over with bright ideas these days. CARADOG PRICHARD. The Welsh Tourist Board is a 'wash-out'. HUGH OWEN, former Clerk of Merionethshire County Council