Audio File
Northern School Of Music (NSM)
2019

Trefor Davies describes a lesson with Marjorie Proudlove at the Northern School of Music.

Trefor: Well, I suppose, considering today’s atmosphere, they would be considered old-fashioned, but they were quite firm. They were quite firm about what they wanted. I can remember Dorothy Proudlove behind a viola player, Alan Perkins, VERY good musician, I mean, oh really up there, and his harmony was something else, and she said ‘oh we’d like to have a chant or that kind of piece from you, this week’, and he draws up with one full of… everything was consecutive fifths which was against the harmonic… and she said ‘Alan, this sound beautiful but we can’t have it’.

Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.