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Idloes Owen
Evan Idloes Owen (October–December 1894 – July–September 1954) was a Welsh singer, composer, and conductor. He was the principal founder of the Welsh National Opera.
== Early life ==
Idloes Owen, was born in late 1894 in the mining village of Merthyr Vale in Glamorgan. His parents Richard and Jane originally came from Llanidloes a market town in Montgomeryshire mid-Wales. They moved to Merthyr Vale, to seek work in the valley mines further south. There were six children in the Owen family, two elder brothers John and Thomas, sisters Hannah and Mary, Idloes himself and a younger brother called Christmas.〔Welsh Census: 1911〕 He and his brothers followed their father into the coal mines at the age of 12.
Idloes was later diagnosed with tuberculosis and after leaving the mines, was able to pursue his passion for music. There was a strong community spirit in the mining village, and his neighbours in Merthyr Vale recognised his musical ability, and raised money to send him to Music College to develop his talent.
He later moved to Cardiff and became a composer, arranger and conductor, and performed with the pre-war Lyrian Singers in Cardiff. He was considered at this time to be one of the finest singing teachers in Wales; Geraint Evans was one of his pupils. Amongst his musical arrangements were "Down Among The Dead Men", based on an old English melody for a male chorus, "The Lord's Prayer", and a Welsh piece "I Toriad Y Wawr" (The Break Of Dawn). During the early part of the war in the 1940s he was instrumental in providing Mai Jones, who was working for the BBC in Cardiff with a musical score, composed initially by a friend and fellow Lyrian singer Thomas Morgan. It was (the now famous Welsh Standard) "We'll Keep a Welcome". Later conducting the Lyrian singers in 1951 he achieved the Melody Maker song charts with the same song, narrated by Tom Jones.
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