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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.

MUSIC IN BRITAIN.

University Traditions.

Dr. Whittaker, of Newcastle-on- Tyne, one of the greatest musical authorities, in the United Kingdom, writes

WIRELESS AND MUSIC.

Angela Listining In?

SINGING ON THE MARCH.

Banishing Fatigue.

will be encouraged. It helps men "Organised singing on the march to march well even when fatigued."

"What is happening in the inter- Vening ether? Perhaps the angela are pleking us up. It is a quicken ing thought. It will make a vast The question of the headship of difference to the music which we

This instruction, which is in the music in the great Universities of create now and onwards," said Sirmanity Singing appears in the new

spirit of the much-discussed. Com-- Oxford and Cambridge may not Waiford Davies, in his presiden edition of Infantry Training 1 seem to the outsider, of vital im-tial address at the opening of the think writes a correspondent of portance in the world of art, but it conference of the incorporated So the "Morning Foat") it is the first is really a question of the utmost clety of Musician at Felixtowe time official encouragement has been gravity. These two centrus of learn-"Ether and Air" was the subject ing assemble between them

given to organised singing as an ten selected by Sir Walford. Remem aid to marching." thousand students every year. The Bering, he said, that our pictures direction in which music moves is and buildings in tone vanished into. one which profoundly influences a memory the moment the last stone women during their college life and had been put into place, let them afterwards.

consider the arrival of wireless, let We in the old country have not them try to estimate how much yet learned to consider a school of music-making of årst-rate order practical music with instrumental ought to be set up in a country of and vocal tuition as a necessary 40,000,000 inhabitants. They part of a university. Traditions. would see that in teaching music die hard in scholastle no less than their great handicap had been that in political circles, and we have yet they never saw and never were able long journey to travel before to let their pupila hear enough fine overy university is equipped with mugle finely set up. How often a conservatorium as is found in had they hoard their favourite sym- Australia. But, nevertheless, music, phony in, their whole life?. is playing an increasingly important they hear it at all in 1926 ex- part in the Hives: of theso commun- cept on the gramophone? They ities: Within the last three or four could not hear great muale greatly decades the increase of artistic Re-rendered often enough. The Three tivity has been very great indeed. Choirs Festivals were blamed for It is less then a hundred years including the "Messiah" in "every since severe don with cruaßing programme.. Barcasm informed an undergrad that "contert giving was no occupa tion for a gentleman." Now a goodly proportion of these young men and women coming from the chief centres of learning are paa- sionately devoted to the best things in art. This Interest is confined to no one class of students. For instance, a chemistry research stu- dent in one of these universities

Did

And

What do the mon sing There lat no more sentimental human being than the British soldier: Hence his choice of a this is perhaps more noticeable marching song-and among the County Regiments is the old folk, song or some purely sentimental ditty or parody, Folk songs have been used by the soldier memorial, and in the course of time as marching tuner from time im- have become officially recognised. march of the King's

"Here's to the Maiden" is the Regiment)..

(Liverpool The men of the Lincolnshire Regiment swing along. to the tune of "The Lincolnshire Poacher." บ song "John Peel" is the "quick The typically British step of the Border Regiment. The Regiment have for many years men of the South Staffordshite

braced themselves up to "Come Lasses and Lads," while. "Men of Harlech inspires the Southe Wales Borderers,

"I should blame them rather," continued Sir Walford, "in not set ting it up at least once a month. and with the inspired carefulness.

A Varied Repertoire of a Sir Thomas Beecham here let me say that Sir Thomasing to war singing "Tipperary" a When our soldiers were march- Beecham's trade against wireless, well-meaning clergyman thought this music-hal affusion inadequata. to the spirit that should animate

correctly reprrted, was as foolish as it was useless. He is a great artist, and an amusing fellow and friend, but he sound d the other day

I told me that all the forty men do-like an annoyed Canute watching

ing similar work to his own during

the tide surround him, and saying his studentship were interested in "It is getting wet and messy here; music and performed on one, instru. I am off to rediscover America. ment or another.

(Laughter.) My on Impression is that. Sir Thomas is one of the men The Right Type. The professor of the university,

who perhaps may live to dig the first channel of all for this flood though he may not come into actual

of good music to reach every corner contact with the majority of the students can exercise a very impor-places, to make the whole country of the country, to irrigate dry tapt infuence on activities through- out the various colleges and in the city at large. it is of the greatest importance, therefore, to have a man of the right type, Cambridge has passed through rapid changes in the last few years. At one time the professor WES Sir Charles Stanford, well known as one of our

· brilliant' musiciana, a composer at

soldier un so serious a mission. He accordingly set himself to write a revised version (he did not reject the tune) which in his view was better calculated to raise the moral! tono. Two of his lines were:

Good-bye, or-indulgence. Farewell, the soft armchair.. Had this clergyman heard the story of the man lying in hospital badly wounded he would have bet the soldier. Asked by a visitor his ter understood the psychology of taste in reading, he replied: Ohi anything so long as it is not the life of a General'

not.

musically thinded, musically fruit- ful and musically prolific. At any rate; it is clear that daily symphony a dally perfect. melddy, perfectly The patriotic soldier d'oe modelled, is now for the first time want to sing about his patriotiem. stay and spread, and hourly to im possible. Wireless has come to His musical inclinations approach more nearly to the homely and senti- Prove. It is clear, that any opinion mental kind Nor does he reject or action based upon the superficial anything couched in the so-called times rising to great heights, with and naturally unthinking first im-humcrous vein. "Annie Laurie?"

pression that ether and air for must- and "Home, Sweet an immense knowledge of music,

Home" ara cal purposes are in opposition, is unpopular favourites. The "Old Con and well-read in other directions. Almost every man of note of recent timely and unserviceable Wireless temptibles" Gang lustily

01 the years passed under his keen, criti-and ourselves, the ordinary music-match

Old Soldiers never die, never die. cal eye and his searching penetra-makers, are destined to be allies, not ition. On his death Dr. Charles opponents. But en both sides never die.

Wood was appointed. Wood was musicians must be carefully aafe-

Old Soldiers never die. they only not known to the outside world as guarded. It would be a matter for fade away. was Stanford, but in some ways he

great surprise if Savoy Hill did not. Prova at quite an early date to be a veritable Ministry of Music, pro- moting both by its deliberate policy and far-reaching influende better

WEB no less notable. If Stanford guided the creative activities of

our men at the Royal College of Music. Wood laid the foundation by Kiving them the soundest course of technical training in writing that

and vastly more music-making of the right sort in every city town, and village in the land."

FILM MAGIC,

A Glimpse of a Modern Studio.

any group of composers ever hadį He was a remarkable technician in the art of composition, and had the happy knack of developing at the same time a pupil's command of ¡resources and his individuality. He wrote largely, although in the direc- tion of original work het: achieved. A tour of the new filmy studios less than his talents might have led built by British National Pictures, one to expect. He is best known by Ltd., at Elatres, Hertfordshire, This splendid song "Ethiopa Salut- where "Madame Pompadour," star- ing the Colours," Perhaps bis ring Miss Dorothy Gish, is now be most representative work was "Aing produced, shows how complex an Dirge for Two Veterana."

undertaking modern film production

A Wise Choice.

can be.

His tenure of the office was brief He died last summer, and his suc- cessor has recently been appointed. Both of the last two occupants of the chair have held their positions chiefly by virtue of their abilities aa writers of music. The new oe-wigs and graceful hooped gowns, cupant, Mr. Edward J. Dent, is chiefly known 想想 an historian, scholar and critic.

He

on of the few men in Eri tain who have been able to devote themselves to scholarship pure and aimple, and his fine intellect, pene

The younger generation of acl- diers sing the latest comic song, but do not despise good songs. Their repertoire is delightfully varied.

The words of a marching song

matter little to them so long aa. they are associated with a swing- ing it. The following lines they

still enjoy:

Send for the boys of the girl's brigade,

To set. Old England free. Send for my mother. and sister, and my brother,

my

But for heaven's sake don't send mel

"ART FLOOD TO THE US.

The export of art treasures to the Unked States has assumed erior- mous proportions.

wilcox, the director, was taking approximately 3,000,000 specimene..

In the No. 1 studio Mr. Herbert

According to a leading expert,

Count Maurepas, Pompadour's bit-to America. Since the scene in which the discomfited of various kinds are sold annually ter enemy, loses his wig and ex21,000,000 works of art, valued at: armistice cites the laughter of a bevy of love many millions, have y fadles-in-waiting in powdered across the Atlantie

been sent

Dotted about the great studio sculpture, tapestry, furniture, glass, These exports include pictures, were various: "sets" which will be old lace, and metal work. The used later a tavern with its cellar prices are higher than ever before, steps, a bedroom with a bed cano-At the Michellam sale last year as pied in tufts of row oatrich plumes, a street acene, part by a dealer on behalf of his' Ameri- and white much as 209,500 guineas was paid' only in miniature.

can clients for five pictures.

Though thousands of articles. tish, storehouse appears to be bare have been sent away, the great Bri-. ly touched.

trating Insight, his patience in. A great fight of steps stood by

painting

laborious research, the sanity of his itself, with a workman Judgment, and his fine literary part of it. On the screen the stepa style, have made him' a man of will form part of a gorgeous palace mark, not only at Home, but abroad.. interior, with carved and gilded In Germany he is very well known. walls; but walls and gilding will He has recently produced in German be only illusion, and the steps and theatres Purcell's "Dido

and the actors alone real a result of the Aneas," a work which he has edited use of the new German magic known for the Oxford University Press.. as the Scheufftan process. Italian musicians count him as one

of themselves.

That Cambridge has made a wise, choice is certain, Mr. Dent's in- fluence will be widely felt and will be all for good.

That it

really is marvellous ran best be ap preciated by those who have scen the film "Faust," in which not one crap of the beautiful landscapes seen by Faust and Mephisto in their travels was "real."

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FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1927.

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