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HONG KONG, THURSDAY M
1932 薌孵藏 日伍月伍年式世佰玖任意英 Prike
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.
BRITISH MUSIC BETTER
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In the end of all things musicalgront edifices would by now have
6 doz, pts.
Mootings: Hong Kong General at hand? asks Richard Capell the bosome picture-palaces. Chamber of Commerce, 4-18-well-known Music Oxitia
Mme, Marchesi said, "The Eng
Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animale; Jarding's No Covent Garden opera, this lighman likes music-but can quite Boardroom, 5:16 pm..; Theosophical summer The Albert Het oon-well do without it.". Society, 6 p.m.
Queen's Theatre:Kept Hug bands."
King's Theatre: Delicious?? Central Theatre: Their Mad Moment."
Star Theatre; General Crack," World Thontre; thShow ΟΣ Shows."
certs do not pay The Brighton Witty-you. But can there oVBES Town Council dismisses its or be much truth in these generalisn chestra And Six Edward Elgar tions, There are Englishmen and says fatly that arts and the Eng Englishmen. lahman are incompatible!
The German is a music-lover, ds Has the economic crisis under-everyone knows, and a German tra mined the foundations of oratorio, veller wrote a book about England Tea Dances at. King's Restaurant symphony, and sonata? Is seri called The Land, with no Music and Hong Kong Hotel Disnerous music", going the same way as But the present, writer can romen Dances at Hong Kong Hotel,
thai vogue of archery and pingber low, when a youth, passion-s Peninsula Hotel and King's es taurant,
pong".
ately engrossed in music, he went. The answer to all these ques- to stay with a German family, only tions is Not at all
to find them engrossed not in their Really, the croakers are ovardo own sublime classics, but in "The ing their plaints...
Geisha," then the object of bis (un- Not that all is well with the just) scora. Youth's disillusion- state of music in England. It ment
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European Mail-Outward: Europe. in Siberia (Ranchi) 10.30
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FRIDAY.
Inbouze to-day, as it always hostin, there is thus much to it laboured, under a peculiar hand educated Germans are proud of Ascession of King George V. 1910, eap: it is expected to pay. Noth Beginning of Summer, Li hain.
ing of the soft, of course, has been their musical past, they regard it His Excellency the Governor ferpected of it in the great Euro. as a kind of national achievement,
loaves, Queen's Pier, 11 a.m
Overseas League Concert, Helena Pean musical countries, any more May Institute:"
than a profit is expected of a uni Jumble Sale at Hong Kong Unionversity. Church Hall, 2:30 p.m.
and are informed about it and res pectful of opera, and cantata, and symphony: Educated Englishmen can be blankly ignorant of the Here it is not gederally under-higher music without a qualm or St. Stephen's College dinner to Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, Chinese stood and by the Brighton Town thought of shame. Marchants Club, 730 p.m
Council even less than by most folk Chess: Open Championship of be that music is naturally no mora a Colony: A Ridlington . . A paying concern than are museums, Bonlanin; D. E. Carvallo . P. Tantional picture galleries, libraries, Rezario: S. E. Husadin v. G. W. Greene; B. W. Paul W. H. W or even playing-helds and munici-schools musie positively lay under Rondali.
pet swimming Baths.
Thirty years or so ago the English
But that is all changing. How 1 schoolboy got a taste of music more often than not by stealth. In some
King's Theatre "Delicious:"
a kind of savage taboo. Nowadays The art of music as we know it at every school with a reputation Queen's Thontre: "Kept Hus: exists thanks to the establishments music is seriously cultivated. In a hands."
Moment.
Central Theatre: Their Mag founded and subsidised by the royal few years time the musical ignore and princely houses of Europe itance of educated middleaged Big- Star Theatre: General Crack" the 17th and 18th centuries. Whellishmen will seem to the younger World Theatre: "Show of our Dr. Burney visited Froderick men barbaroün. Shows."
Tea Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at, Hong Kong Hotel, Panin sula Hotel and King's Restaurant
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European Mail:-Quiwardi Europe via Siberia (Empress of Japan) 10 a.m.
SATURDAY.
(May 2)
1st Day of Moharam.
Mohammedan New Year.
Anno Hijra 1351 Commences..
the Great's Open in Berlin 1773, what did he find
por-
CHEERFUL PORTENTS. "The King being at the sole ex- And there are-other-cheerful pense of this Opera, the sutrance tents, is gratis ap that any one, who is
Of course music is suffering from decently dressed, may have ad- the economic crisis, and, of course. mission into the pit. A stranger it has its enemies, both the open of distinction is sure of being acones, the Philistines, and the insi commodated with a place in the dious ones, the capricious anobs. theatre according to his rank!?
But all the same English music, tá But it so happened that this day stands higher in relation to the great European tradition never obrest of the world than it has done tained in England Hence the in for 300 years. security and semi-starvation of
London has this winter had a re
Cricket: Interport XL v. Music here, and the comparative in- guiar, weekly symphony concert
Alan Roid's XI., H.K.C.C." ground
Lawn Bowls:-Division 1: Kow- loon Docks . Craigengower, Kowth, 18th, and 19th centuries. Toon C.C. v. Kowloon Bowling: Groen, Police: R. v. Recreio, Civil
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Taikco Yacht Club, Craigengow
significance of our composers in the
(which in the old days it never had), regularly well attended" and given by a young orchestra which Fis already one of the great orches
“ SHOWMANSHIP.
What do you suppose would do tras of Europe. Then though the
ar s. Kowloon C.O., Recreio Civil the present position of the British Philharmonie has had a bad win-
Service, Kowloon Bowling Green z
Hong Kong Electrio,
Museum and the National Gallery ter, the doubled Courtauld concerte
Contral Theatre: Their Mad-like Covent Garden 'opera and have filled the Queen's Hall again Moment."
す
King's Theatre: Delicious.”.........
Queen's Theatre: Kept Hus bands."
Star Theatre City Lights." World Theatro:
Shows."
the Philharmonic Society's concerts and again, London, too, has what
they had, always had to live onis à upw institution în a regular their day-by-day takings from the popular opera that of the Vio- general public" "They would pro Wella" company.
Show of bably be crying out to Mr. C. B.. English choral singing, I know, Ten Dancos at King's Restaurant. Cochran to save them by showman-has strangely deteriorated in recent and Hong Kong Hotel Dinber ship, and attractions-porhaps years. That is serious but not Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Re with contortionist dancers in the vital. What is vital-on the prot pulse Bay Hotel, Peninsula Hotel hall of the Elgin Marbles, or with side is the preseptday school of and King's Restaurant, medi
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turns by Mr. Borry and Mr. Bobey English composers, a school, which to lure the multitude into the pre-makes the croakers, who have been sence of Botticelli and Rembrandt talking about the decline and fail
still, the of our music look really; abord.
and Tu
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