Talk:Mary Davies (mezzo-soprano)

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This is not for inclusion in the Wikipedia entry, but I hope will lead to more information about Dr.Davies. Please will those who wrote/contributed to the entry on Mary Davies please contact me? She was my third cousin, the grand-daughter of my great-great-great- grandfather. Although I have a wealth of family details and through another relative have recently found photos of her and of a portrait bust executed by her sculptor father (my great-great uncle William), I only recently discovered her eminence in Welsh music. I would very much like to know more. My email address is: john.r.davies@btinternet.com. Thank you John Davies 86.160.120.244 (talk) 00:16, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your offer. However, everything in Wikipedia should be based on reliable secondary sources, such as encyclopedias and mainstream newspapers. Your family records would most likely be primary sources and as such would not be suitable for expanding this article. Regards, Verbcatcher (talk) 03:27, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Welsh National School of Music

What is the "Welsh National School of Music" that Mary Davies helped to found? I have checked the cited source (her Guardian obituary) which says "She did remarkably good work in helping to establish the Welsh National School of Music and in the collection of Welsh folk songs." I initially though that this meant the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, but that was established in 1949 and Davies died in 1930. The Cardiff University School of Music was founded shortly after the The University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire opened in 1883. If Davies did help to establish a national music school then I would expect this to be mentioned in her article in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Searching with Google for "Welsh National School of Music" gives nothing useful. I can only conclude that The Guardian was using "school" in the sense of "a local group united by a similar method or style" (from OED), as in Venetian School (music). Verbcatcher (talk) 03:57, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]