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MUSIC OR NOISE!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR DANCE MUSIC?
At the present time, writes Mr. H. St. John Rumsay, there is a good deal of criticism on dance music, and that criticism is becom Ing too frequent and too Togical to be ignored with impunity, The classical fanatic who jeors at everything but chamber music le out of touch with our subject, but the critic who enjoyed the foxtrots two or three years ago, and de- teats them now, has some valuable: and constructive criticism to offer." First of all dance music must be music by music, we mean that 'wo want melody and rhythm, Tho basic rhythm of the foxtrot
some
few years ago offered such an in- spiration to dancers that ballroom dancing, was raised to a standard undreamed of hitherto. Not only was the standard of the experts excellent, but danclag, recruits poured in, and we had a dancing. boom. In plain words, dance music was responsible for the quantity and quality of ballroom dancing.
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Something. Radically Wrong. To furnish a room is to decorate it to overfurnish it, is to spoll it. The foxtrot at the moment is sad-" Parcels 3rd Sept. 5 p.m. Jy over-furnished with too much Sat, Sept. 4. "broken rhythm," too much "trick- Registration. 19,45 a.m.
playing," so that, the true rhythm Letters.....10.20 an. (Due Marseilles 1st October.)
is lost, and the melody is drowned. Mausang....Sat., Sept. 4, 12.30 p.m.
Many bands, in their anxiety to Mingsang
.Sat, Sept. 4, 5 m
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it. A ding dong" tune is-mono- tonous, but an incessant clanging- noises is monotony intensified.
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WALK TO WORK.
DOCTOR'S MEDAL FOR 1,000 MILES A YEAR.
determination. This walker made almost every mile of this 1,000 on Manhattan Island, that is, New York City.
music.
The reform needed a twofold. We want better rendering of our dance music.
The reform needed la twofold. We want better rendering of our dance numbers, and we want a supply of dance numbers...which are worthy of the skill of musi- clans.
Taking the first of these points: -The musicians who combine to form the best of the London dance bands have sufficient skill and training to indulge in occasional. "instrumental trick-playing" withe. out upsetting the melody and, rhythm, but the average band would be wise to omit efforts to produce startling effects, and to confine themselves to play the music in front of them in correct tempo and rhythm. Only the best: acrobats are capable of becoming successful clowns: only the most Capable músiciana can indulge in trick-playing without producing noise instead of music.
He conscientiously carried out his resolution to tramp three milës daily, but the hot weather towards
Too Much Trick-Playing, Dr. John H. Finley, an Ameri-the end of June caused him tam- When we turn our attention to can physician, offered last spring porarily to succumb to laziness, the second question under discus- a bronze medal to each of the first He resumed, however, in October, sion we are forced to admit that thousand men of women who walk-walking from his home to his office, many of the dance numbers writ- ed a thousand miles in twelve. a distance of seven miles, every ton and published are deficient in months, including a single day's morning.
the essentials, melody and rhythm, walk of twenty-five miles.
All went well until he took a and the poor quality of many of The twelve months" have ended, fortnight's holiday, in December, and a number of men and women, when he was expected to wheel his the more recent foxtrots may be blamed for offering to the bands among them a convict and a teach small daughter's perambulator on
er in China, claim the award. his walks. This reduced hin an excuse for too much trick-play- A woman of forty-six claims average, but he redeemed it later rhythm are not sufficiently good Ing, because the melody and the medal on the ground that with when, ordered for jury duty, hoto interest the public without the WL in the stipulated period she tramp walked ten miles daily from his inclusion of "stunts.
ed, in quest of health, from home to the town hall.
Music inspires the dancers, but Springfield, Massachusetts, to the Dr. Finley himself thinks no- shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre, in thing of a forty-mile walk, which mere: noise is no inspiration, and eventually wearies its listenera; +47 Fall Quebec, and back, completing the accomplishes in a little more 127.3-3.0 1.0.32.10.10. turned homo..
hearly 2,000 miles, before she ze than ten hours, frequently by at the present time, there seems. every chance that we shall have a
11.7 boklung +16.23
She had very little money, and His records include a forty-mile Noise will slowly and surely kill
"slump" in ballroom dancing. refused all offers of "lift" along walk in France on the eve of the
On the other hand. dancing the roads, accepting the hospit great war, a sixty-mile walk in a music-le, melody and rhythm ality of kindly farmers wives. Like the pilgrims of old, she offer-day and a night in the Holy Land, will just as surely keep it on the and a seventy-mile walk across ed prayers of intercession in re- New Hampshire.
upward grade in quality and turn for the night's food and lodg. He urges a daily three-mile quantity
(either your house or office)
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Another woman suffered a nor-
, moonlight,
walk for the sake of body and Over 500 Icadors of the Sarekat vous collapse on the death of her spirit, and declares that every man Rayat (Popular Revolutionary father. She was urged by the and woman who accomplishes this Party) have been jailed in West Borneo, most of them at Pontia doctors to walk away her ills, and has his or her own reward.
nak. All communication with the. before the middle of March had completed 1,400 miles, A From the little village of Namheud-quarters of the Sarekat A school teacher, depressed and Ping-Wel, in the Antau-district Ravat in Java has been suspend- physically run down, decided to Now Territories, comes the reported and all-ports-in-West Borneo.. qualify for the medal by walking of a robbery on Saturday after-have been closed and are being the four and a half miles to school noon, as a result of which jewellery closely watched by the police every day. It took him two weeks and money to the value of $1,167, The well-known leader, Abdul to learn to rise sufficiently early, the property of a married woman, Chalid Salim, a native of Sumatra, for the walk, but he states that it were stolen. One of the villagers has been compelled to return to has made a new man of him. 18 being detained and questioned Sumatra, while Dahlay from the The log submitted by one as to his alleged knowledge of the west coast of Sumatra, has ra- claimant tells a dogged story of affair.
turned to Bataviakik as