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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.

FILMS BURNED.

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TIRED OF JAZZ. BERLIOZ REQUIEM.

THE OLD DANCES GAINING

GROUND.

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cf This winter may mark a turning- February 25 reports:-Movie-going point in the evolution of what used Maniluns are fortunate that four to be called ballroom dancing." large shipments of Alms were There seem to be distinct signs that brought to Manlia on Wednesday the dances from across the Atlantic from the United States. by the are losing ground, and that the in- "President Jefferson". These films curably romantic spirit of Europa 'were still in the customs house is demanding something a little when the Escolta fire early.yester- more satisfying than eternal jazz. day morning destroyed a large pur cent. of all the movie films In The Philippines.

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STRIKING EFFECT OF BRASSES

AND CHORUS.'

A magnideent performanco. of Beror's "Requiem" was conducted! by Sir Hamilton Harty at the Albert Hall, and broadcast by wire. Fou

The work is rarely performed, 1 is one of the rare curiosities of music owing to the extraordinary factors in the orchestra and the more than dramatic effect aimed at by choral singing.

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Recently a Paris orchestra, after Having played innumerable Blues, Charlestons, and Black Bottoms There was a great array of brass Several hundred reels of fima puzzled the younger folk by break-Instruments, players from were stored in the vaults of the ing into the strains of the "Blue Benses' the Barn and Irwell Lyrie Film Exchange. They were Danube," First one or two couples, Springs bands betur arrayed high vahind at P175,000. Some of the then more and more were lured by up about the chorus on the right larger and most expensive pictures the music, and soon the floor was and on the left. When they were: burned were The Wonderer, Stella covere 3 by dancers waltzing. in the in ull blast the effect was blood Dallas, Son of the Sheik, Volga moderr fashion it is truc. 11 the air curdlink..

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The Halle Choir from Manches. their grandmothers Boatman and The Million Dollar to Handleap. A cablegram was sent danced. The experiment was an ter gave us some of the best choral The same exsinging heard in Londen for gome to the United States yesterday or fundoubted success. dering films to replace the picturesprimertig being repeated on the years, and M. Tudor Davies was mentioned and others. but it will Riviera, where the Boston is played first-rate in "Senetus." ise about thirty, days before they ls or seven times in an evening. will be in Mania.

Many redis of films in use by the Mantia play houses and the ones which arrived on the President Jefferson will be used untit a new sypply arrives.

A SIMPLE PIECE.

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A favourite piece of music

"Barcarolle that fumua pices. Venetiene." by the talented artiste. Jules Bernard. It is a very simple piece, yet its music stirs the soul.

16 seems to be entirely different from all other pieces, and after while you actually begin to think you are singing it yourself. It has clear notes, and when played by wn expert is absolutely a masterpiece.

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really beginning to look as if the walls is coming into its own again.

A re meelat quick march for the Royal Army Ordinanca Cerps, which has been unproved incorporates the famén : melody "The Village Black "mith,"

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MUSIC IN ITALY. '. ¿ il

Writing on visit to Italy a con tributor to a contemporary says:- The theatres are excellent and in- pensive. Even at the opera one may book a good seat, for about 38., and one is,always sure of a satis factory orchestru. Musical talent in both cheaper and more plentiful thar with us. But one must be prepared for interruptions. Ita- Tiens think nothing of entering or engaging in eonversation in the But of a scene or song.

un- this annoying habis lg not known even in British theatres, so one must not say too much.

One of my joys" when travelling to Itinerant in Italy is to listen husicians. One may see, on the

from nain follows an applicariiddle pion Chamberlain's Fin Balm

apnetrasing nient for deep seat- di puins, which reduces painful swells inge, relieves stiffness muscles and joints, and leaves one feeling supple and native. Easily applied and feels good.se the skin. Sold everywhere.

Buy of the Westminster:Whbey Choir with their mator, Sychney II. Nicholson, artunist of the Abbey,. what are touring Canada under the auspices of the National Council of Education, together with the portlontas of His Majesty's Free Chapel of St. God in Windsor Custle, and are accompanied by the Very Reverend the Dean of Windsor, Dr. A. V. Baile-central chaplain to His Majesty, the. Xing, the Rov. Kilmund 3. l'allowes (right) diretor of the choir af St. George's Chapel, and Bydney H. Nicholson (left) organias of Westminster Abbey.

The officin visit to Canada of the gentlemen of His Majesty's perhupa sewing milk in the seaport of Genoa, Canade still in Free Chapel of St. George, in Windsor Castle, and the haze of the undiscovered. And while these two latter choristers of St George's the boy choristers of Westminster Abbey, accompanied by the scenes change dramatically,

Very Rev.the Dean of Windsor, Dr. A.V. Baillie chaplain to the have still gone on with their services, symbolizing the chivalry- King: Rev. Edmund H. Fellowes, director of the choir of and honor of the twenty-six Knights of the Garter. The

·St. George's Chapel; and Sydney H. Nicholson, organist of Gentlemen, of St. George's and the boys of Westminster Westminster Abbey, and Master of the Choristers, is macie visiting Canva number twenty in all, the right choristers or with the special approval of His Majesty the King. They clerks of the Chapel at Willisor are those who sing the visit of the choir which is now touring Canada from Frede- evening and moming services in the chapel; and in the more ricton to Vancouver and return, on the All-Red C.P.R. route private services associated with the life of the Crown and the is more than a mark of inter-Einpire courtesy: it is a gesture Order of the Garter. They also provide the music in the that should de much to help the fuller realization of pos Private Chapel when Their Majesties are in residence at

Windsor Castle. scasions common to Canada and Great Britain.

The choir is here under the auspices of the National The Dean of Windsor. Dr. A. V. Baillic, who will give Council of Education, which since its inception in 1919 has lectures during the tour, on Windsor Custle, the Chapel of continually emphasized the importance of the place of music St. George and Westminster Abbey, in one of the outstanding in Education. This tour is essentially a part of the Coungures in the ecclesiastient life of England. He is the god cil's programme designed to stimulate public interest inson of Queen Vicsaria and a nephew of Lords Elgin, torater- music as one of the most powerful influences in the life of Governor-General of Canada. la addition to being chap both the individual and the natiɔn. -

lain to the King, he is also Registrar of the Order of the The Choristera from Westminster Abbey and St George's Gurter. Chapel, to sing their way through Canada without fee or Dr. Edmund H. Fellowes will lecture on Elizabethan and recompense of any kind except the pplause they will gain, English Church music. He is the foremost living authority have a history going back to a day when the great-grandfather of music of the Tudor period, as witness his monumental of Columbus was a humble Genoese, watching bouts sail out edition of the English Madrigals which he has completed in and believing that if they went too far they might topple over the enge of the world. Sr Canada must feel comparatively

An organist of Westminster Abbey, the choirs of Mr. young in the knowledge that the soft-footed India, was stift

mperor of the prairie, when the choristers first sung to the Nicholson have beenian inspiration, not only to the habitual order of Edward 11 in the chapel of St George at Windsor worshippers at the Abbey, but also to the vast body of The glory of the Dominions is in their future, but Eng visitors to that shrine from all over the work, He is the During this Let's greatest glory is in the long story that runs back through author of "British Songs for British Boys." the centuries, and that story is told almost completely in the tour he will conduct as number of concerts, especially for histories of Westminster Abbey and St. George's Chapel of Scouts and Guide in which Scout music will fargely figure.

Canadians are therefore given an unique opportunity to hich these visitors are the ambassadors.

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It is interesting to think of the three parallel scenes. hear the best of English church and Old English part music, Haward 111, creating the Order of the Carter in St. George's while a standard of excellence is reached in choral singing, Clapel, Columbing still unborn and his great-grandfather that is probably unexcelled in any part of the world:

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roud, or upon the pavement where it is sufficiently wide, a woman with a tambourine, a man with a violin,j

second with a concertina, and then a vocalist. Sometimes in-. stead of a man it will be a boy or girl that sings with sweet treble voice, or there may be but a guitar with vocalists, which I think best of all. What music one has hoard by the roadside or in the market- place--no vulgar jazz "music"- but, the real thing, sanga from famous operus sung with beautiful intonation and expression until one's pulses were stirred to joy and gladness. have heard better musle from Italian street singers! than I have sometimes heard at high-priced concerts!

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