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HOW OTHER COUNTRIES ENJOY CONCERTS.
AN HISTORICAL ALLIANCE,
Has anyone ever explored the apparently intimate connection be tween music and beer? Why is it that so many music-lovers are beer-drinkers, not as a rule, be it observed, to anything approaching excess, but nevertheless in a mark ed degree?
I do not suppose we shall ever see such a one. The vested in- terests in theatres and concert. halls would always combine with the teetotal Puritaniam of the Lon- don County Council licensing com- mittee to make it impossible. The police would not improbably veto it as a potential resort for dia orderly characters, and the musi clans themselves, from what I know of them. would very likely consider appearance in such surroundings heneath the dignity of their calling.
The Mandarins.
seem to have affronted these awful Yet Germany, France, and Italy perils and survived. England has, To begin at the beginning: con-at the present time, the unenviable sider English Folk-Music. This is public entertainment as difficult and monopoly of making any kind of nowadays the special preserve of as hazardous as possible. Music is somewhat ascetic persons whose only favoured by the mandarina brows show a decidedly upward because they imagine music is not rather than a downward tendency.kind of music most of them favour, an entertainment, and certainly the But it was not ever thus,
entertaining.
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SPARTAN LIFE.
A PRIMA DONNA'S HEAVY ROUTINE.
UP AT 7 EVERY MORNING.
prima her
donna's chief concern is not As she grows older D voice but her figure, and she has to lead a spartan life to preserve her elegance and dignity..
People who imagine that a prima donna's life is ali opera and plen- sure will have surprise-when they Madame Sigrid Onegin, the drama- read how rigorous is that led by tie contralto from the State Opera, Berlin, who made her first appear- as Fricka in "Die Walkure." To a ance at Covent Garden Opera House
reporter she said:
"It does not matter what time I go to bed, whether it is 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning, I am always up by
a.m. At 7.30 I have a light break- fast of two eggs and fruit, and then nt 8 o'clock I begin singing. I sing for a quarter of an hour and then of an hour. I continue exercising do physical exercises for a quarter and singing alternately for four hours, and then I have a lunch of light meat and vegetables and fruit. No Porridge.
to say nothing of the manner in Our Folk-Songs and our Folk-which it is performed, is far from Dances flourished originally in the dampest of atmospheres, the former Nevertheless, thank goodness, being associated with roystering music remains essentially a plea carouses at the public-house, the sure, the best of all to those who latter by drinks first at the public are fortunate enough to understand house (to put the dancers in the its true nature. It is a thousand right mood), then by as many free pities that we have not the facill drinks as could be obtained from ties, enjoyed by musicians of other
"It is necessary to eat carefully the principal houses in the country-nations, to show the unsophisticat-o porridge or potatoes for side, lastly by another little drinked how delightful music, can be. her figure.
prima donas who would preserve at the public-house (to make sure For there is the right music, aye, that all the dancers should have and good music, too, for every had enough) anit "go to bed.” man's mood. Capture the affee- Some of my readers may think tions of John and Jane Smith over this pleture too highly coloured, an informal glass of beer and you It is not ac; and the proof may be will soon lead them to the mere found in the fact that these songs austere delights of the opera and and dances were discouraged by the symphony concert.-Francle Toye Nineteenth Century "powers-that-lo "Morning Post" were" owing to their too intimate connection with Intoxication.
Germany's Example,
We have, however, moved, for from those days. The modern re- lationship between music and beer is strictly tempernte. It may be conveniently symbolised by the habits of every epera-house in Ger- many, where it is the custom be- tween the acts to drink beer and ent sandwiches in the foyer. Nor is the custom confined to the opera- house, The German Beer-garden. where sober citizens and their wives slp beer and listen to music. is famous all over the world.
Someone will doubtless object that this is true of Germany, he- cause the Germans are frst and foremost a beer-drinking people. Unfortunately for the objection, I can state with some assurance from personal, experience that the same thing is true of France. When I was a boy there was on excellent institution In Paris called the Concerts Rouges. Here there were nightly concerts by a minia- ture orchestra of the first-class, and one sat at little tables listening to the always admirable programmes. The price of admission included a drink and I noticed that the one particularly favoured was, always beer, the only serious competitor being "cerises a l'eau dé vie." Coffee, wine, sirops were simply nowhere. And I have observed the same phenomenon in Rome, Milan, even in Bordeaux itself.
Where musicians gather together there beer is drunk. Can it be mere coincidence?
A Natura! Ally.
So one of the basic troubles about our music may well be that it is divorced from what seems to be its natural ally. Where in all this great city of London can a man and his wife go to hear good music and drink a glass of beer? Nowhere. Nor, for the matter of that, coffee or tea or any other bo- verage.
hour's walk, and then I lie down "After luncheon I try to take an and read until two hours before the performance.
Always my day is]
the same."
Mme. Onegin nscribes her great capacity for work to her rigorous life. She has a repertoire of 1,500 songs and sings in seven languages.
At The Canada Jubilee
Tempo di Valte
WALTZ SONG
GORDON V THOMPSON
Why The Watch On The Rhuf Writer of The Way Cemre Dosh To Ta
That let
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tand
GORDON V. THOMPSON. ̧·
Canada's Diamond Jubilee has been Mr. Thompson composed this new
the inspiration that led to the song recently while staying at the writing of a new Canadian song "At Chateau Frontenac at Quebec. Here The Canada Juhiiee" which bas re-at the very birthplace of Canadian cently been published to commemo-istory Mr. Thompson felt the arge rate the sixtieth year of confederato write something that would ex-
Lion.
Ita composer, Gordon V. Thompson, press the joy of Canadians at the has already established the reputa- coming great event. Having produced tion of being one of Canada's leading "At the Canala Jubilee" Mr Thomp song writers. His popular war songs on fall that another song, express- composed and published during the ing the optimistic sentiments of Can- stirring days of 1914-18 are well-jadians, would be exceedingly appro- known. There are few who do not priate. Land of Glad To-MorrOWS" know
heart the aira of "When was the result of this inspiration Jeck Comes Back", "Khak!” "When Your Boy Comes Back 10 something of the optiuntem for the which the composer feels expresses You", three patriotic wongs in par
cular composed by Mr. Thompson future throughout Canada at the during the War.
present time.
HOLMAN HUNT ON ART.
The centenary of Holman Hunt's birth was celebrated just recently. and "W.S." in the "Daily Herald," "The Light of the World," recalls one of Holman Hunt's sayings on art.
"Children of labour,' he said, 'ought naturally to look upon a work of art as an example the highest The cafes and restaurants, kind of labour, and when a picture whereof one or two of the orches is presented to them, as soon as the tras might be adequate to the task. first wonderment has subsided, I do not as a rule provide the kind have observed that they so regard of music that appeala to 'real lovers [it. ·
of music. Moreover they are so "They know that a good work few in number as to be negligible bespeaks a long training of the in any case and so expensive that brain and flugers, and that the they are out of reach of any but mind must have been exercised to the well-to-do,
keep all distracting, egotistical as- sertion out of sight, lest the
It in a real pity that London has nothing that corresponds to the spectator should be drawn from the Concerts Rouges in Paris or the thought in the design.
of
German Beer-gardens. For what i "The aim of art is to unfold to men principally need is al the spectator new delight in life plentiful supply concerts previously unregarded by him.... where good music is given in The singleness of view with which congenial surroundings it popular an unsophisticated workman or prices. The ideal place to provide workwoman comes to the question such entertainment is one where re- does. I am sure, save them much freshments are supplied, because bewilderment, for, as a piece of the profits on the refreshment help workmanship, they undoubtedly to pay for the expenses of the look for the right characteristics in music.
a work of art."
A FILM OF GALLIPOLI.
London, May 10. have decided officially to co-operate The War Office and the Admiralty
with British Instructional Films, Ltd., in making a picture dealing with Gallipoli. The same company produced pictures of the Falkland Battle, Mons and Zeebrugge.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1927.
A WEEK'S PAPERS IN ONE.
Again has the civil war in China token a startling turn. General Chiang Kai-shek is going after Hankow first instead of Peking, and this decision has occasioned a series of com- plications, which are all set forth, and the situation sized up, in this week's "Overland China Mail."
1 Various moves by the foreign troops in China are being made almost daily, mainly as a result of the threat to Tien- tsin and the North generally by the advancing Southerners. Fresh disturbances and a degree of anti-British feeling have broken out again in Shanghai and other places; the arrest of Comrade Borodin 'and other "Reds" has been ordered-all matters appertaining to China in Arms are covered in this issue.
Then we have Hong Kong itself. An interesting account of the development of the Peak Tramway, and what it is pro- posed to do in the future; how we are looking after the Bri- tish troops here; how Hong Kong is growing and how the effects of the boycott are gradually wearing away: details of important changes in local laws...
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