Aled Jones with Good Morning Sunday
H
aving sent the BBC a copy of our latest recording a little while ago, the band were delighted to hear that they would receive some air time on Radio 2 during the “Brassed Off” section of Good Morning Sunday presented by Aled Jones.
The hymn “Be Still For the Presence of the Lord” composed by Welshman David Evans was chosen and broadcast during the early hours of Sunday the 8th August.
David Evans (February 6, 1874 – May 17, 1948)
Evans was born at Resolven, Glamorgan. He worked in the coal industry as a teenager, but music was always his primary interest. He won a music scholarship and became a pupil of Joseph Parry, which led to his qualifying at University of Wales, Cardiff, in 1895. He went on to become organist and choirmaster of Jewin Calvinistic Methodist Church in London. He succeeded Joseph Parry, his former teacher, in the Music department at Cardiff, where he was appointed a professor in 1908. Most of his compositions were of a religious nature, including many hymns. He participated actively in the Eisteddfod movement.