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now shedding the various infuandse similated, the necessary executive Six Songs, to poems at Henri that-have-hitherto moulded his work, technique will soon be acquired, for de Regnier, Samsin, and and that a definite personality is all Eastern races are adepts at picking Pierre Lony's.

emerging. His original Japanese up anything that depends on manual Two Vocalises.

songs reveal examples that are really skill, the Chinese and Japanese not- interesting, and convince the hearerably so. I have yet to hear, however, that in these he has succeeded in any Oriental executive artist whose expressing. by means of a Western performance was anything more than musical vocabulary and techniqué, Įtechnieally excellent. something of the thoughts, feelings, and impulses that are of the essence Pianoforte Copperto (C). of his own race and peculiar to them. 1918.-First Pianoforte Concerto. His arrangements of old Japanese Songs by Baudelaire, Ver-song and dances have considerable interest and exotic charm, and are of Two short Pianoforte pieces. historical value. Skill is displayed in 1919.Pianoforte Sonata No. 1. the manner in which this music is Fantaisie Espagnole, Piano-presented, so that we feel that here is authentic Oriental music as far as Incidental music to a play, is can be expressed in terms of West-†

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-LONDONY October 10th. It is reported that serious complications rose-hall songs are disposed of direct the Academy of Music, Tokyo, from have arisen at Vit. The Poles are mak- in Europeaning a determined attempt to occupy the to the natives. In China, much to similar institutions

THE PRINCE OF WALI,.

LONDON, October 10th. H.M.S. Hengen has entered the Channel,

One-Japanese prima donne, Tamaki Miura, has achieved sensations suc- cess in America in operas like Madama Butterfy, Iris,. The Geisha,' and ofbersy and her success has been the signal for the appearance of other Japanese singers. I know also Malay, Chinese, and Filipino pianists and violinists who have given me pleasure, the more so when they have tried to sfford me an idea of their native music instead of the Chami- Yamada is a conductor of unusual nade genre they usually dote upon. 1920. Pianoforte Quintet.

abilzy, and a New York friend who The Pathan and Punjabi bandsmen Prelude, Toccata, and Fugue, is a prominent critic tells me that he of the Indian Army bands are also generally for Pianoforte.

considers him to be one of the most remarkably clever, and Second Pianoforte Concerto, interesting and promising young con-develop great sight-reading abilities. Sorabji is a merciless critic of his dictors that have come before the But I was never able to determine In his opinion whether the Western music they own work, and has discarded all work American public. previous to his first Pianoforte Con- Tarada is far greater as a conductor played so well meant anything to thera, noc-could their European band- certo al 1918, as being immature, an as a composer,

Here then are two very concrete masters enlighten me much.

· Chu-chin-chow. I have witnessed He has apparently absorbed and as-

the developments of illustrations of the influence that Oc-friend told me he was quite convinced ago Occidental music was unheard the performances of a fair number, isimilated all Fut with one exception, that of modern harmony, and has succeeded dental music has begun to exert on that it was merely a matter of par-and unknown in the land. There To rot facility with them, and that they existed only the native variery, a good Roshatare, I have seen nothing to an uncommon degree in evolving the Orient and Oriental minds. that convinced me it was Oriental idiom (of a very advanced nature) attain to a mastery of technical re-were completely indifferent and un- deal of which, incidentally, is very either in atmosphere or accomplish that appears to be absolutely his own sources in a mode of expression touched by the music they played. beautiful and acceptable to Western yet in a great many ways basically strange to them is in itself a note-On the other hand, another band-cars. When Japan started to modern-

LONDON, October 10th. Oriental music has of course exer- Oriental. That is, to say, one feels worthy achievement, but one that can master of my acquaintance indignant-Fise she did it thoroughly, and in-

Further outrages are reported from Ire cised a great influence on our ban.with, his music that is could hardly be paralleled in other directionsly denied this, and assured me that cluded music in the scheme. British Mr. Norman Pereskin, who was There are very few of the moderns have been written by any other than What is more significant is the fact they had strong bikes and dislikes, and French bandmasters were brought land so-day. A military motor-lorry pro- His rhythmic sense is that Orientals, whose mental make-up and looked forward to new stuff-in to train any and navy bands. A creding to Castleres station, County Ro well known in Hongkong as thesho do not reveal the infvence an Oriental:

introduced into the schools and co-missing. There are no further details. manager of the Robinson Piano Com-somewhere in their work, including tremendous: A-great deal of his work is so different from our own, who so with an especial liking for Wagner few years later Western music was common, was blown ap. Eight soldiers are Armed men attacked two military lorries Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, and the has a boiling, surging effect, that is as Occidental music is concerned excerpts.

The gramophone has played anleges. Conservatories on Western filled with soldiers near Bandon, Cork, last pany and as a skilled pianist, has an dem French and Russian schools alike anything I know in modern have po tradition or inheritance of article in the September number of generally. Of our own men, Ban-music: it gives one the feeling of ants and feeling to guide them, who enonnous part in making. Wester lines were established, mostly with righ. An officer was killed and three The Musical Times dealing with the rock is the one who is supposed to almost valeante personality behind it. our music with such different music of the lighter Type Familar to German teachers, who ran Japan's soldiers were wounded, Civilian casualties

As one time it was music for many years. The Japanese are not known. I certainly think that when this cars as it were, can yer, in a short Eastern ears. influence of Occidental music on the have come most under the fascina-

tion of the Orient. Strange to say, music gets into print, and is perform space of time, assimikte what we chiefly records of native music that proved ape pupils, so much so that Orient. He writes:

there is little in his work, fine though ed, that it will become as much at have to offer and in for express were sold, but all this seems a be they are now quite competent to look That Oriental at in its various lit be that (to me) strikes a definite storm centre of discussion as the themselves in a new medium with changing, and an efformious number of alter their own music, winch they do. records of rag-time, light opern, and There is now very little to distinguish manifestations has exerted as exor Oriental note, whereas I feel this music of Debassy, Stravinsky, Ravel individuality and authority.

It must be recognised that it is not mous influence on that of the Westore strongly in a great deal of Cyril Goossers, and Schönberg.. is a fact that can hardly be disputed. Scott's music even where it is net The Japanese composer, Koscak only a matter of learning a new lan Perhaps only those who have lived in concerned with Oriental subjects: Yamada, a fair amount of whose music guage and expressing one's thoughts regret, gramophones, together ceatres. It turns out fully equipped Lithuanian capital which action conficts Oriental countries and are familiar However, it is not necessary to quote is in print, is a writer of quite a dil therein. In this case it means that with large orchestrions, are grads-students executively, who are absorb with the Polish declarations to the League with its art-whether it be that of further instances of the general inferent type, being not by any means a new view-point must be assumed, ally displacing the native orchestres ed into the numerous orchestras and of Nations. It is stated that, the Lithuan that used to be so mach a feature bands that exist in the country, fans are preparing a vigorous defence and music, painting, ceramies. decoration. Atence of the arts of the East on a revolutionary, as is Sorabji. He is and a fresh mental development must &c-can quite realize the extent of those of the West-it would be now in the early thirties, and com- take place before anything can be ex- of every tee-house and restaurant. Most of its teachers are Japanese, and the Government has gone to Korze, the influence. On returning to Erg labouring the point, and in any case maced his musical training at the pressed that is of value or intelli-It is, indeed, rather remarkable how nowadays Western music has even land after many years of life in East is not what I se: out to write about. Imperial Academy of Music at Tokyo, gible to the Occidental mentality. Eastern races have taken to our light penetrated into Court circles.

I have

The same thing is gradually happen- ern countries. I have been astonish-1. see also that the Chesterian an- studying mostly with German teach-That is to say, the basic thought, music, especially rag-time. -ed to find how little of the most nounces an article on Oriental in ers, who st that time ran-whatever impulses, and ideas which go to make many times used myself with not-

advanced Europe art seerd wholly fluences in contemporary European music there was in Japan. After a up the personality to be expressed in ing the effect of European music on ing in Chint, but to nothing like the original. For instance, the effects music. by Kaikhasru Sorabji, which long period of studentship be became terms of music, must be, if not actu my native servants of different races sane extent, the spread of Western and is proceeding to Portsmouth accom

Fleet and air destroyers. attained by our Fulus and Cubist should be welcomed by those inter- a teacher in the Academy, all the ally altered, at least developed in new-Malays, Tamils, Javanese, Chinese, music being generally due to the mis-panied by the third flotilla of the Atlantic

and Japanese. I have played on the Sonaries and the ubiquitous grame-

His Boyal Highness the Prince of Waler phone.."

has sent a painters and sculptors are far from ested in the subject. There is prob- while devoting himself to composition directions, before what is expressed

message to the Press expressing being peculiar them. In Etticably no one in England-or, for that in Westem forms. He eventually left as music can have much appeal to pianoforte or gramophone all kinds of

music Stravinsky, Debussy, Irving That the influence which Western his warm appreciation of the numerous mes native shops in Kyoto, the old and matter. in Europe better stred to.Japan for Berlin, where he continted the average Westerner.

Berlin, Elgar, Borodin, Lionel Mouckmusic-is exerting is to be commended sages of welcome and congratulation from It is proverbial that the Oriental still unspoiled capital of Japan. I deal with it. For Sorabji, in addition studying and working for five years. have seen water-colours, sketches, to his Eastern heritage, possesses an Max Bruch, amongst others, display-personality differs from our own in to: &c. In every case the result was much doubt. First of all, es at all parts of the United Kingdom, saying the same, they were always attracted ready said, it is usually the lower that he had the most splendid time during prins that in drawing. colour, and encyclopedic knowledge of modem ing a lively interest in his work. His its make-up, Things that move us general effect arc of amazingly simi- music, and one can look forward to an output at this time included operas, deeply and that possess great signi- to anything with strongly marked forms of our music that are spreading his tour, but he is very happy to be back

rhythm. Nothing else, seemed to-g-time, musical comedy,&**. lar type to the work of the European interesting and valuable article. symphonies, &c. One of his operas, ficarce in our lives bear no meaning

HASTENING CHINESE CONSORTIUM. Futurists and Cubists. I have also.

Though I have wandered from the based on a Japanese subject, was achatever to the Oriental. To take matter: the harmony might be ultra-This element has tended to displace or utterly the native music in the affectious of seen figures and has executed in point. I started out to write of exact cepted for production in Berlin, but common instance, how differently modern and involved,

WASHINGTON, October 8th Sir Auckland Geddes and Sir Charles wood soap-stone, marble, and other lythe opposite subject-the influence was shelved owing to the war. Soon do they regard death: The thoughts elementary, so long as the rhythm the people and push it into the back- material that are notre es startling of" Western music

on the Orient: alterwards he returned to Japan, and and feelings weald give rise to in was there. Borodin's Prince Igor ground, as it certainly is doing in in their conception as anything turned Some might be tempted to think that has since devoted himself to compost the Eastern mind are probably a com- Darces drew them just as surely as Japan and Chins. The native music-Addis, the London manager of the Hong- met Mr. Davis, Under-Secretary of State out by Epstein. Mestrovic, or even such an inficence does not exist; but tida, teaching, and conducting. He plete reversal of those that would be Irving Berlin's Watch your steps,an and his music are falling into dis-kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation things as Debussy's favour, and in the end will, die oul, Department on October 8th for "confer- the more advanced work stiff of the taey would be quite wrong. The in-recently made a trip to the U.S.A., prompted in ourselves by a similar While such

L'Après-andi 4me, faune found to be replaced by the mechanical ence which is understood to have besk the shoddiest arranged with a view to hastening the steps German expressionis: Oswald Her Buence not only exists, but is grow where he was one of the sensations contemplation. It is the same with The greatest and most

them absolutely indiferent and bored. European, variety of ing rapidly. We are all aware that of the 1918-19 New York, musical our music. Japanese art has in the past greatly our composers write Eastern music-season many of his orchestral works moving utterances of Westel com Strong rhythm, therefore, seems to kind. In a similar way the beautiful for making the proposed Chiness Consor

Mr. Sidebars Visited the department infuenced European art, but i should on occasion, though it would not be being played under his own condus-posers are meaningless to the Orient be the element that attracts them in native costumes, materials, and hand-tium effective. not care to decide as to whether it is recognised as such by Orientals. It torship.

al, and not necessarily to the un-Western music, and this doubtless worked goods are being superseded

machine-made European during the day. now inficering our Futarists and will probably surprise a good many His output includes Autumn Fes-educated or lower class only. In explains why jazz and rag-time gener by cheap

I clothes. Cubists, or whether it is a case of people to learn that there are com- tival (Morike) for chorus and or-turn, a great deal of Eastern music, ally have attained such a hold.

I shall not soon forget the shock spontaneous conception of similar posers of Oriental birth writing chestra. The Dark Gate, Madars even if it could be expressed in was much imerested to come across ideas in boil lands.

Western' music. So far I have no 'hara,* Blue Flameall sym-Western musical terms, would prove confirmation of this recently when of one of my first experiences of reading a most interesting book on Western music in the East. I. had in another, direction. much has oxme

The to be unbearable to us. across only wo: Kakbusu phonic poems: a symphony

Indo-China by a French writer, amended a performance in a little been said about the influence of the Sorabji, who is Indian, and Koscak Triumph of Peace: Marie Mag- not think of it as music at all: Beaudesson. He tells how-be-made Malay theatre in an out-of-the-way Orient supposed to be evident in the Yamada, who is Japanese. That is, dalena a choreographic symphony, would be merely noise to us. and costumes and colour schemes of the these two are the only men, so far and some vocal and pianoforte works. actively unpleasant noise as that. experiments with a gramophone on district, the play being one of those Russian Ballet. Personally I think as I am aware, who are writing inusic | A great deal of his earlier work Not only is the 'medium or material the Moi, one of the primitive races

of Indo-China. - In his own words: the ballet has never given us the ani- that in its scope and achievement can displays the influence of the Germanit uses beyond our comprehension or

The choice fell on the Spring TRY ONE AFTER DINNER. que colour combinations and decora-be placed in the same class as the classics. while the later leans to the enjoyment, but what it strives to

If you are troubled with Astulence, a tive effects constantly met with in the best of our modern European writers. methods of the modern French school. express is also alien to us. Neverthe-Spng," which however met with little

The audience evidently had sense of over-fulness dnowsiness after East. Perhaps it is heretical to say have come across other composers In common with Sorabji, Yamada dis less to the people whose urterance.it favour.

The esting, just take one Pinkette after the but I found that some of the bal-jof Oriental---or partly Oriental-birth plays fine musical craftsmanship and is. it is all that is beautiful and vital, no opinion" of Mendelssohn, let's colour schemes inesistibly re-who are. writing music in light vein technical mastery; but unlike the So that if at first sight the fact that small children made for their mothers' principal mal daily for a few days and

condition. minded me of the displays one asso- very successfully. Some of the Füll-, former, he has not yet shown himself there are Oriental composers, writing arms in terror, and were only con- see how efficiently they remedy this The "general Pinkettes are a specific for constipation, ciates with the windows of Liberty's pinos seem to possess remarkable gifts to be the possessor of any strikingly in Western idiom does not seem parti- soled with difficulty. and Heat's in Tottenham Court Road, in this direction.

individual utterance, at least in his cularly remarkable, a little reflection feeling was one of astonishment pass-disordered firer, biliousness, sick bead- tongus, four breath. especially ballet like The Midnight Unfortunately, in the case of orchestral works. These, however, and an endeavour to put ourselves in ing-to displeasure. We, hastily took aches, coated

tiny but thorough, set gently as Sun and Thamar. Perhaps I had Sorabji, none of his music is in print, are interesting enough, and maintain their place--Le.. write music in an off that record and replaced it by a pimples, and blotched skin. They are better not say which i prefer! and therefore available for general a high level. They are as much de- Eastern idiom that will be intelligible hunting chorus plentifully sprinkled natore. Obtainable from medicine το Orientals--will with the blare of hors. This met vendors everywhere, or at 60 couts the In ceramic art the lovely work turn-ļ discussion or performance. I have", serving of performance as most of the and acceptable ed out by the Ruskin and Doulton por-seen and heard a good deal of it, and orchestral novelties brought forward; soon suffice to prove that it really is with a most enthusiastic reception. vial from Dr. Willis Medicine Co, teries has its counterpart, both as to my own opinion is that he is a new nevertheless. one feels "That they a very remarkable achievement. -

We went on to the music. 96 Szechnen Boad, Shanghai... shapes and glazes used. in the Chi- and startling voice. in our modern might have been written by any one Western music is also exerting in halls, and singers, and whistlers, and cese pottery of certain periods. In music. He has mastered all the tech-of our well-schooled younger com fluences in the Orient in other and less when the interval was announced this case, as the Chinese work long nicel resources of the art, which he posers, for there is no definite invaluable directions than the creative. after " Fou Rire," the entire audience: antedates the Western, there can be ases with insight and surety, his dividuality of utterance, and but linte There are now a rapidly increasing went off almost convulsed with at- no question abou: the influence. handling of the modern orchestra hint of their Eastern origin.

number of executive artists. This is tempts to imitate it.? In the realm of dancing, we have being amazing. His works are cosely Some of the work written since his far, more understandable. Once the Of the countries of the East tiht had a deluge of Oriental dances in the larger forms, and are of a com return to Japán from Europe. seems king for European music has been have taken most kindly to Western and dancers from Maud Allan toplex character. They include: to point to the fact that Yamada is cultivated and a certain amount as music Japan is the chief. Fifty years

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old tiles that date back hundreds of

There had been some singing years. We could

of rather plaintive native music which had interested and delighted me Ich Then, (to my stupefaction, one of the characters burst out into a distorted version of “Yip-i-addy-j- ay!' sung to native words ... I felt we were answerable for a good deal.

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This kind of thing was to become a common.experience, and I actually í recall one performance of Macbeth? done into Malay, where various popu- (ar music-hall tunes were introduced, to the frante delight of the native audience.

Civilization and progress, I sup pose! Yes, Western music pertainly

is exerting a strong influence on the. “unchanging East,” and I for one wish.

it were not so.

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