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SIR HENRY WOOD demands
MORE MUSIC
POR more than 50 years
music has been my mas- ter and my life. Therefore if I were Musical Dictator I should at least bring to the job a clear understanding of the world of music and its problems. And there are
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GO is very Important, BUT
Yet I should not need to consider long before making my
To make sure it will STOP is even first decree.
more important.
It should be
addressed,
The famous musician's jubilee as a conductor will be cele- brated in the autumn, by a concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
To have dependable brakes to marked "Urgent and Overdue," hall was designed without the know you will STOP regardless of to the Universities of Oxford slightest consideration for music weather conditions WHIZ NON-EVAPORATING HY-and Cambridge, neither of which and has proved unsuited to the DRAULIC BRAKE FLUID.
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That is not an isolated case.
A high-quality, permanent fluid that s guardian of our culture protects Bnd preserves Hydraulic clamoured for the establishment I have a fine orchestra of keen of a permanent professional amateurs in Hull, Only tre- mendous enthusiasm keeps it That is a shameful state of going, for the city cares so little affairs, and has amazed many a about it that it will not even give distinguished foreign musician it a place in which to rehearse. who has attended at either My drummer there is a school- university to receive an
master. I have met him on a honorary degree in music. My rehearsal evening trundling his decree would require it to be set drums in a wheelbarrow, for | right.
there is no place where he can leave them. Could keenness be greater, or civic indifference more cynical?
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If that seems a trilling reform to come so early on a dictator's list, let me point out that it is important because it is A symptom of what may be called
the "official" attitude to music in England.
Music is the only art that is treated here as anybody's job,
about 500
fair play for church organista. My next decree should require
It is impossible to exaggerate our debt to these musicians,
there is an organist, and more
Wherever there is a church
often than not he is the man
who organises and conducts the local choir, orchestra and opera Bocicly. Yet even to-day, the church organist is treated as a nonentity.
Brings Happiness SCHOOLS should
GRIN AND BEAR IT
COLLEGE
MAS
By Lichty
* Cap. 2020 by timiled Pestana Bysticate, ti,
"Psat-put away that check for the endowment fund until AFTER you get the honorary degree!"
The Last of the
Venice.
* hidden hollow of the neglected park of a de-
plain lies the entrance to what the few who know of its exist- ence believe to be the last of the secret shrines of the Knights Templars.
of
Old Gods
By
G. WARD PRICE
to another cave, on whose wall is a
1
the world. The Report for 1937 But people don't want all good in intellectual discipline as have found means before his execube a panel brought from one of the
How do you know that?
[year.
not
forlorn
free to flourish where some brilliant impresario kes to court bankruptcy or a wealthy private patron cares to lavish on it his wealth: equally free to languish and die if private enterprise cannot keep it alive.
Next I should instruct all In the official life of the towns and cities with populu- church he is merely the parson's |tions of 100,000 or more to set unrecognised servant. Even up civie orchestras. These the Enabling Act of 1924, which Mr. H. B. Butler has just orchestras would give Promen- recognised the rights of the published the last of the Amualade concerts six times a week verger, conferred on the or- Reports of the International throughout the entire year. ganist and choirmaster no rights IN Labour Organisation for which
At least one in ten of these whatever. My decree should he will be responsible, for he is concerts should include a work make him the parson's partner serted villa on the Venetian leaving Geneva before the end
for choir and orchestra: and ao in the service of God. I should make of this year to take up his new magnificent choirs were rescued sure that our appointment at Oxford. These from the slough into which some
come Annual Reports have always of them slipped when broad-
next on my list. The been eagerly looked forward to casting began.
trouble with music in schools is
For 120 years, in the dim light of by internationalists and econo- Probably you are burning to that it is still regarded as an the innermost of its arificial enveros, mists not only because they con- tell me that my decree would "extra" or a "frill.” That is has stood a twenty-feet-high flgure tain the history of the 1.L.O. mean setting up
of Baphomet, the strange double- sheer unenlightened nonsense.
sexed god worshipped by initiates of during the past year, but even certs.
orchestras giving nightly Con- It is uol obvious that some that famous Order,
Quite so; and why not? measure of understanding of When the Templars were sup- large marble bas-relief depicting the more perhaps because of their Is it too much to assign to music music would add to the bright-pressed six centuries ago by Pope rite of "baptism" which used to lake invaluable and impartial survey about one eighth of the enter ness and happiness of almost France, and many hundreds of them
Clement V. and King Philip of place there. of economic and industrial con-prise and facilities that the everybody's life? Regarded
charges simply as a study, music is ust at the stake on ditions
Ordeal by Fire? prevailing throughout cinema enjoys?
heresy and sorcery, their
Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, is said to
THE carving is crude but forceful. It might well. is no exception to the rule. To these concerts, you object. any subject in the school cur- tion to pass on the secrets of their many the chief points of interest body was clamouring for sum- asset, it holds a place second to lodges at Naples, Edinburgh, Stock-century.
No- riculum: considered as a cultural ritual to others. These founded four original chapels of the Templars that were destroyed in the fourteenth may well lie in such assertions, mer evening concerts in London none.
It shows Uree naked holm, and Parts-from which the figures, two of which are pouring a supported by facts and figures when Robert Newman opened Why, then, does music occupy propagated.
worship of Baphomet continued to be flood of water over the head of an- SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS has been regained and surpasa-Proms 43 years ago.
as that "the prosperity of 1929 the Queen's Hall and started the so modest a place in the minds
other who lles stretched across an Yet there of educationists?
Bat-Haunted
altor. And, believe cd" and that "on the surface is no doubt about these concerts me, it does.
There is a corresponding panel in wis doubtless through the next grotto, which was evidently there is ground for satisfaction being wanted now, nor has there
I know you can point to official
the Southern lodge at the scene either of sacrifice or ordeal been any doubt for many a reports to show that the Board of the now
Naples that in the present state of employ-
the Italian proprietor by fire. estate where ment if the world be taken as
of Education smiles on music, Baphomet still People
A hollow altar stands there, bear- did
stands became, at ing signs of having been used as a a whole". But Mr. Butler is cinemas or broadcasting, or any- ductor, can tell you
demand but I, and every other choir con- the beginning of the last century, an furnace, and the carving above it under no illusions. "Should an-thing but bare necessities, until great mass of young folk energe in Europe and whose costles in Pales- rising on either side of him.
the powerful fraternity depicts one of the three figures lying that the adept of
which once had over 9,000 branches across a similar altar with flames other general war break out", he they were provided. So with from the schools wihthout being line, bigger than the Tower of Loo declares, "a total collapse is concerts, the latent demand able to sing at sight a simple don, still stand to-day.
The narrow passage leading on to exists everywhere as it existed melodic line.
the heart of the shrine is brightened practically certain”—and since
Το most people the magic of at ils next turn by a gap in the roof in London.
modern science has muds the en- [“public money; mostly borrowed,
Our schools are still turning chantments of the Middle Ages seen symbolise the enlightenment of the After five years or orchestras out people who are musically
that lets in the
This is being poured out without in every centre with a popula- illiterate.
is said to ridiculous, but there are stint for armament purposes tion of 100,000, no body would from the Musical Dictator!
where
places neophyte who, after passing through their They should hear
membry still ingera, the ceremonies of baptism and ordenl
no can imagine and export trade is being doubt the demand.
more suitable surroundings for
or sacrifice, is ready to enter the the invocation of sacrificed to the needs of home
We have not got the
Encourage Composers
powers of evil than the cold, presence of the idol. but-haunted darkness of the under- The path ten slopes steeply down defence" "the seeds are being concert-halls for such a scheme? sown for unemployment in the test that it is high time the will on composers, although it
Well, let's build them.
I pro-
ground temple into which one passed again to below the surface of the PERHAPS a dictator ought round tem
from the not to seek to impose his sequestered Venetian plain outside.
warm sunlight of the round. One comes upon a cave of future",
irregular sides, Illuminated only by There is an almost community realised its duty to
The pathetic reference to the sort of give music decent facilities.
entrance lies through a large an unseen opening in its roof. But would
modern cave, whose Biteness
as the eye grows used to the shadows, to a vault
is the monstrous world there might be, if the
Russia
increased does not share that were by the
figure of Baphomet ancient memorial slabs of Knights of League of Nations ideal of last-
the Temple, stands out, rising to the roof from view. Yet I might presume to brought here from their original shallow pit in the centre of the ing Peace and co-operation were
submit a few suggestions for the burial-grounds. The walls are hung not being discarded everywhere
consideration of composers."
with armour, helmets, and weapons,, in favour of Power Politics.
Is it wise, I should ask, to be all caten away with rust.
exacting in your de Double-Handed Sword for the delty was supposed to com- quito ao "No one could doubt", he writes, "that, if by some magic formula that Sheffield's beautiful civic demands
Do you realise, for instance, is too apt to write music that
vestibule of the strange arou
The head wears a triple-pointed peace were suddenly guaranteed
colossal orchestra tabernacle of a forgotten god. In crown. The uplifted arms hold, In for the next ten years,
and prodigal rehearsal if it is to narrow gap lends to a fight of steps the straddling legs lles a skull, and the gloom at the end of the cave in the other of the moon. Between one hand a reproduction of the sun, would be such an acceleration of this competition continue with-
be performed.
which open en to n deep clrcular!****** the world's economic rhythm as out a lowering of conditions in choirs that treats voices unskil-hold in its conical root 30ft. above:
Or he will write music for chamber, dimly lighted by a round at the feet of the idol is a
small marble allar. would outstrip all previous re- the older manufacturing coun- fully and unkindly, forgetting
the earthen floor.
An uncanny effect of this under words". Among a number of tries? Is it not good that im- that choristers are amateurs entrance a lofty seat in white marble ing secret worship, is the trans- ground image, which for a hundred. Against the wall opposite the years and more has stood here awalt- other facts and tendencies that poverished natives in Asia and and want to enjoy themselves. rises like a bishop's throne, in front parency of the eyes. These are so aro recorded it may be that the Africa should be able to buy And is not too much modern of which, on a narrow altar, les amade that as you move about the most significant is the increas-cheap stuff from Japan in view music a bit stiff for listeners huge double-banded sword, red and cave the light from shove suddenly
also?
senly with a hundred years of rusting. shines through them, giving the ing industrial activity of Asiatic of the fact that they would not
It was here that the would be startling impression that the stiffly countries. This is true of China, in any case purchase the more tioned by way of discovering took their firat oath of secrecy before glance in one's direction.
These things would be men-initiates of the Order of the Temple standing figure has shot a swift, India, Java, etc. but is most expensive merchandise of whether composers are capable passing
on to Icarn the Inner marked in the case of Japan. Europe or the U.S.A.-simply of taking a hint.
mysteries. Her share of world-trade is not because they could not afford to
Dark and dungeon-like as this first My hints should be accom- vault is, what lies beyond is still yet vary considerable only 3.67 do so? Obviously there is an panied by a promise: that any of Baphomet wero admitted to the plars in the empty space benind the
more for worshippera por cent. in 1936-but, thanks intricate problem here of good worthy music they wrote should further riten only one or two at anure of the god, where his devotees, to very low labour costs, she is will and wisdom, and the method many times. Believe me, it is
bo performed not once only but time. able to produce goods for export of its solution is best given in performances that make at prices far below those of her Mr. Butler's own words: "It is posers, and it is impossible for a competitors in the West, Two a problem to be worked out neglected composer' to achieve questions are raised. How can rather than fought out"
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In a Wheelbarrow I COULD tell you dozens of keen musical enter- Prises that have died for want
of a home.
appear
that
sun.
cavern.
It has the form of a powerfully built man with a thick black beard, but the figure is that of a woman,
mands? The modern composer THIS, however, is but the bine both male and female qualities..
A
com.
Peculiar Rites
all in this: LAST Seene of
sanctuary of the Ten-
with magic symbols and words of It is hard to find the way out of power, are supposed to have tried the "Chapel of the Sword." The to call up the demons of the abyss.. part of the temple in hidden behind 1810 that this underground... narrow door leading to the Innor It was in "the year of the faming" a screen of artificial rock. It leads shine, according to focal Tradition, to a steep, twisting passage that riebr
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