God Be In My Head

The apparent simplicity of God Be In My Head with its repetition of the key phrase suddenly gives way to very effective harmonic sophistication on the word ‘heart’ that lays the path for the twilit ambience of the final phrase. HWalford Davies was a composer and musical director at the University of Wales as well as Organist at, among others, Temple Church where his student Leopold Stokowski (later one of the leading conductors of the 20th century)assisted him. Davies is best remembered for this work and for the march ‘RAF March Past’. Davies also did much to educate the public about serious music through radio programmes and his writings.