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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1936.
THE REAL VALUE OF MUSIC
Mr. Gerald Sydney Addresses The Rotary Club
LECTURE ILLUSTRATED
An interesting and instructive address "The Value of Music and its Relation to Poetry"
WBS given by Mr. Gerald Sydney, Professor of Music, Royal Academy of Music, London, at the weekly tiffin of the Hong Kong Rotary Club held at the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden yesterday afternoon. "At the conclusion of his talk, the speaker played "Pastoral with variations" (Mozart) on the piano. Heexplained he chose the piece because of its atter simplicity and to illustrate the truth" of what he had told the meeting.
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into which some were initiated and some were not.
Mr. Sydney emphasised that the true value of music was that which expressed the movements of the soul. It was his firm belief, after many years of study, that the lover of the right kind of music was just as na tural as the air we breathe." Guests introduced included Pro- fessor J. D. Busa, of Cunton, a former well-known Hong Kong re- sident and speaker at the Rotary Club. Dr. E. Law. Capt. Muir and Mr. E A Braudie. of Hong Kong. Mr. W. N. Thomas Tam (Pre- sident)
been said: "There has some change in the setting of the room. I am not directly respon- Recalling nis childhood anys, Mi sible but I hope members will like Sydney said that when he was it. "On behalf of the Club I wish seven or eight years of age he took to extend a very hearty welcome his first music lessons from to two new members, Rotrian F. young mistress and was belas Beck and Rotarian Lambert Gock-taught the Second Nocturne from chin (Applause). Our speaker for Chopin. "The teacher remarked
Mr. Sydney explained the rea BONS. The greatest reason, per- haps, was that people tried to 13-. ten to music with their brains in- stead of with their ears, They tried to get a concrete meaning from the music.
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BARBER FINED
A rather unusual case Was heard by Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistency 705- terday when three men, de- sunbed as birders were charg- ed with "rentoving 'a dead body .thout written sanction or ärection of the Registrar of Births And Deaths" on July 13.
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Detective Inspector A. H. Elstu (prosecuting) said that the auth Officer took a serious view of the case and was pressing for a tine.
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The accused men were: Ng Hov | VALUABLE Sung, 64, barber shop keeper, Yau Klu. 26, barber, and Pun Shuu. barber, all of No: 950 Canton Road All three admitted guilt.
Comprising
Iron Safe. Steel & Teak Dorki, Inspector Elston said that since | Steel & Teak Filing Cabinets, Glass Ng Hop (ürst accused) accepted Cabinets, Office Chairs, Partitions, responsibility for the offence, thu | Tables, etc., etc. •
other two. could be discharged as the police had nothing against them. They were only fokis of the Arst accused, and had acted unde.
ils instruction.
The two men were accordingly discharged.
Relating the facts of the case. Inspector Elston said that an un- employed man. named Cheung Chirg. aged 34 years was allowe to sleep in the barber shop at So Street, untli he obtained employ- ment. At 6 am. on July 13 the man died of tuberculosis, and de- fendant with the help of his fokir arranged to dump the body in the street where they left it.
In a subsequent statement tu the police, defendant claimed that in the excitement of the moment and not wishing to spoil his bus
es, he was compelled to get rid
A Quantity of Miscellaneous Goods-day. Mr. Sydney, has an intro- that whenever she heard the piece duction from Shanghal Rotary played she seemed to see a de- Club and in a letter the President serted graveyard with a church o speaks very highly of him. Poets the top of the hill! (Laughter). say that music hath charms to Mr. Sydney pointed out that sooth the savaged breast; this one carnot imagine things with Club, more than any other. is in music or try to make music an in- need of this sort of talk. (Laugh-tellectual study instead of aesthe-dumping the body of a baby," said
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At the outset of his talk, Mr. Gerald Sydney said that when he was quite a young man he was told by old experienced speakers, and actors that the arst thing he had to do when he rose to his feet was to put his sadience in good humour. He had found that his andlence was already in good hu- mour. (Laughter).
THREE CLASSES Sydney, continuing.
Mr.
sald that music could be divided into three classes. The first was the popular music, such as 'modern dance tunes, sentimental erooning
which never songs when
ruse above the level of the pleasure lor. ing side of one's nature. They were not worth consideration. The speaker pointed out that he was not laying down the law but mere- ly giving his opinion.
The second class of music was the type written only for expres sion. By that he meant that the ordinary man in the street had to have musical training and a know- ledge of technical composition-be- fore he could appreciate it. This type was not, music in the real sense of the word. It was more a science than an art and more mathematical than aesthetical
tical,
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CASE
THE
MANUFACTURE OF HEROIN PILLS
To Deter Others
R. O. Grimlit demonstrated the manufacture of heroin pills in the Central Court yesterday in sup- port of his case against Man Yu, who was charged with the posses. sion of 500 diacetyl morphine plis and unanished pills and a capable of making a further 6,500 pills, at No. 16, Tung Man Street
on June 30.
Mr. E. W
Hamilton, Superin-
tendent of the Imports and Exports, appeared for the prosecu- tion. The case was one for com mittal.
Mr. Hamilton said that in ask-
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WAS A
of the body.
*This is not the usual case u!
that prosecuting omcer However there were special circumstances attached to the case as the ac cused had not attempted to, cou- ceal the body in anyway. In fact they frankly admitted dumping the body. Defendant, so far g the authorities were aware, DUS- sessed a good character, Th
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Magistrate to defendant. In view of the special circumstance:
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HUNDREDS DYING, E. P. & Brass Ware, Gramo.
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by
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One cannot define music. zaiding for committal there Mr. Syndey as he went on to de-special reason. The situation re- brought back to Lanchow (Kansu) scribed the third class of music garding heroin pille was becoming by a Chinese official who has tour
so much out of hand that he wased the famine-stricken districts of which he said was the real music
pressing for sentence much One heard that lives forever.
greater than could be dealt out by about the music even if one "did
His Worship not listen to it. It was the ex- pression of the movements, aspira- tions. dreams, sorrows and jays of the soul-an expression in sound. It was the only real music und was very, very simple. The more beau-entered a cubicle and found the iful the thought the more beauti-defendant actually making the
pills with his hands. fur the music to hear.
Everybody knew, said the speak-. er. that a man born with a lovely "soul did not live up to it.
IMPULSES ALIVE
land lying west of the Yellow River On June 30, R. O. Grimmitt and are. he says in a state of utter party of revenue officers raided devastation, and epidemics are No. 18. Tung Man Street, acting on adding to the miseries of the in- information received.. The R. O. habitants. '
The defendant said that he was a business man and did not know that it was illegal to have the pills. They had been zwen to him by a friend..
Conditions are steadily getting worse.
In the Chiuchan district stone- which lies between the Provinces of Chinghal and Ninghala-more than 100 persons are dying of starvation daily.
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Mr. Sydney drew the picture of
TWENTY THOUSAND REFUGEES a famous composer who had set music for a prima donna to sing. R. O, Grimmitt in the witness
In the neighbouring district of On the night of the concert the box said that in the raid the de- China there are no less than 20,000. prima donna refused to sing and fendant was found sitting on his refugees. The investigator saw remarked that the song was be- bed with some pink paste in his hundreds of children roaming about yond the human voice. The com-hands. On a board near him was in rags unwanted, while parents poser was tempted to forcibly a mass of paste. Inside a wash-who tried to sell their daughtera
Artifeisl · Bilk & Cotton Piece throw the singer out of the win- stand was a heating arrangement. for a few dollars
Goods. Woollen Blankets, Artificial above, which were two trays on scarce. dow.
Bilk, Wool & Cotten Clothings, which were some pills drying. Be-
Artificial Elatio Braids, Cotton The Commission appointed by Threads, Artibaial Silk Stockings, Mr. Sydney remarked that, as bind the bed was found the pin
the British Government to inves Hand Fewing & Knitting Machine tar as the value of music wall con-making machine.
The defendant then admitted tigate the mul-tasi ("girl slavery"") || Needles, Metal Press Buttons, Toilet cerned, it was to keep the impulses alive. Everyone knew that the living there with his wife and problem in Hong Kong and Malaya Soap, Condmised & Evaporated Milk, circumstances of life were such child and that he paid a rent of is now touring Malaya. The Com Colom Cellophone Paper, Zip mission is hearing many stories of Fasteners, Raincoats; Electric Flask that many people's souls became 38 a month for the cubicle. stunted, sometimes distorted and The paraphemalla had been cruelty to mui-tsal and also many Lamp Balbe, Wood Yarn, Mussels, sometimes the soul scarcely exist taken and submitted to Mr. Taylor arguments in favour of the system. Confectionery, Aniline Dyes, etc., etc. the Government Analyst for ex-Mul-tsal is the Chinese term for The objection would probably amination. T
"little sister" Little girls of poor arise, said Mr Sydney, that some Yuen Kam, C.R.O. 98, then gave familles are sold to more prosperous people were born with music and evidence which corroborated that families by parents who cannot some were not. That was wrong of R.O. Grimmitt, after which the support them. They are supposed And it was also wrong, to think | defendant was committed to stand to be treated as adopted daugh- that musle was a kind of mystery trial at the Criminal Sessions.
ters
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