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The "mechanisation" of music,

Still-another British film comi by which was meant the develop-pany will shortly be launched, with ment of the pianola, the gramo-its headquarters at Hove. phone and wireless, was referred to The former electricity works, in somewhat critical language by north of the railway station, has Dr. Ernest Markham Lee in his been chosen as the site of the presidential address to members of studio, and land near the Downs the Incorporated Society of Musi-is also available. clans, who met in annual confer- ence at the Mansion House. Sabse quent speakere, however, espoused the value of these musical aids with enthusiasm, and the general trend of the discussion went to show that with the development of the gramo- phone and the advent of wireless had come an appreciation of good

music hitherto confined to a very limited circle.

The Lord Mayor of London (Sir Charles Batho), was present at the opening. of the proceedings to welcome the delegates on behalf of the City.

BEETHOVEN.

AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

One hundred years ago Beatho- ven died in a house in the Schwartz-spanierplatz, Vienna. "A violent storm had arisen as night fell; hail and snow were driven violently against windows and roof. A bolt of lightning suddenly struck near by, and a loud clap of thun-

A well-known novelist is asso-der deafened the watchers by the elated with the project, which will bedside. The man thereupon open- be directed by men of established

ed his eyes, shook his clenched fist reputation.

above his head, and in this attitude of deflanco gave up the ghost." This is the account by Ernest Brennecke, Jr., of the end of the mortal career of the great glant of music whose centenary year has

It is hoped to make the fullest use of the countryside, and the quaint old harbour at Shoreham, few miles away, may figure in a picture.

The company will, however, not confine its activities to making Sussex films, although it is possible that the work of certain writers associated with the county may be screened.

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been the occasion of half filling our

concert programmes. If Beethoven wrote any silly music. It has had its chance along with the sublime. Orchestras have given ta the had not advanced nearly enough. symphonies; in one concert under In his opinion the chief work in the Toscanini, the first and the ninth future was for the society as a pro fessional body to insist upon the en-figured. The London String Quar. noblement of the profession. With tette has recently finished a week' that aim in view a new and import of the compositions dedicated to ant committee had recently been

Dr. E. Markham Lee, in his ad- dress, referred to the past year as one of more or less universal de- pression In music, except for the more, mechanical forms such as formed, consisting of the president four Instruments; Miss Katharine

and the gramophone wireless. of the society (for the time being), Bacon has presented the thirty-two Opera, although artificially sup- the chairman of the Administrative eonatas for piano. "Critica, musi- (for the time being), clans and lay public now unite in. Committee ported, was still in a rather des-

Sir Hugh Allen, Professor Granville! perate condition; orchestral

con- Bantock, Dr. Percy Buck, Sir Lan-honouring him for various rea certa had been continued with diffidon Ronald, Dr. Lee Ashton, and sons,” says Mr. Brennecke in "The culty, and in the case. of the Dr. H. W. Rhodes. "So far se our Commonweal (New York), adding Dr. that "some of these reasons are Queen's Hall Promenades, only with society is concerned," added the aid of the British Broadcasting Lee, "this seems the most import ridiculous enough": Corporation; many choral societies 1927, and I shall be very disappoint- "In Beethoven, for instance, our were falling by the wayside; re-ed if it does not result in very great genius-worshippers discover citals were only successfully at-things. I cannot prophesy, but I tempted by the few. Chamber can hope, for this committee will Possessor of an ocean of tempera- ment. They recall that he threw music alone was in a more hopeful not merely possess wide condition, probably because it made but will, unless one is much mis-eggs at his cook; that he was care

taken, command the sympathy and less of his clothes and of the clean- less demands in the matter of ex-good-will of the whole profession." liness of his person; that he tramp-

pense. The fact had to be faced that music, was becoming mechan- ised, and the problem for practising musicians was how best they could meat the

altered circumstances. The remedies were not altogether easy to And, but as a preliminary they would be wise to assume that the rivalry of the gramophone and wireless had come to stay, and that they could not with any safety reckon on their attraction waning. How, then, was the profession to meet the depression with which it

was faced?

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Mr. Rawlinson Wood, while noted through the country roaring his agreeing with the criticisms passed tunes in a frightful voice, with his by the president on the gramo long black mane flung to the phone and wireless, said he fully breezes; that his performances at concurred with his observations on the piano caused the tears of his the ease with which the profession.

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of music could be entered. It had auditors to stream unchecked down As the Glasgow to London ex- been said there was no gate; there their cheeks, after which he laugh-press was travelling at sixty miles was no fence even; it was an opened at them wildly and called them an hour the communication cord field. What, he asked, was good of having men or women to rooms, and then refused to live in informed the officials that a man the hogs and asses; that he hired was pulled and the train was atop- ped at New Southgate. A woman teach music who could not speak them; that he improvised the had fallen out of her carriage as King's English: The fact that the Moonlight Sonata for a blind girl; the train was passing Hadley universities were recognising music that he fell desperately and vainly Wood. After a search the body of as a qualifying subject was a very in love with acullery-maida and William Hyslop, of Glasgow Road, good beginning in that direction. countesses; that he outraged and Springwell, Blantyre, Scotland, who Sir Henry Coward saw no reason insulted archdukes and princes; was on his way to London for a is only one way to reduce the num- to be despondent about the rivalry that he passed his last years in the holiday, was found. ber of entrants to the profession. of either the gramophone or the (for him), unspeakable anguish of First of all, to make a gate of entry wireless. They were mere shadows deafness, brought on by a syphili- to it, and then to make that gate of the real thing, but they were un- tie disorder; that even his death difficult to go through. Some doubtedly stimulating people to a was in the highest degree spectacù- people think there is already a gate better appreciation of music, and lar of entry, and point to certain de- they had created a desire for music

"The only real remedy that I can see," continued Dr. Lee, is "that there must be fewer of us. There

gate. People tumble in just

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grees and diplomas. There is no in country places where it would be much of it is, unfortunately, true, "Some of this is apocryphal, but as impossible to give a full orchestral and all of it has supplied a vast they like, and you cannot hoof them concert. The wireless had un-fund of curious evidence for those out. The only method of building doubtedly injured musical societies who, forgetting the examples of such a gate is so to educate public in some places, but that he regard- Bach, Haydn, and Brahms, think of opinion that it will not employ any led as only a temporary phase.

the ideal composer as one neces- Tytam As for the overcrowding of the sarily afflicted with musician or music teacher other than a. really qualified person. profession, they had to get it into mania. (Hear, hear).

a demonic Tytam Byewash Ambitious keyboardytam Intermediate the minds of all the dear mammas ticklers,also, often think that If Wong Nei Chung..

Tytam Tak and fond papas that because their they can only act with sufficient Faidulum children could play a sonata or pasa eccentricity, they will be able to

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a little examination these things did transform themselves into Beetho- A denotes "Above Overflow."} not qualify them to be professors veps. unless they showed extraordinary

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"To my mind the profession of music will never be on a par with some of the other professions until there is a gate of entry which de manda not merely a test of musi- cal ability, but one of ordinary gen- ability, and that they must be con- centenary we might do well to rid Tytam eral education. Why should we tent to let their children be great our minds of the merely pictures-Tytam Byowash expect educationists to recognise social assets doing good to the com- que and theatrical, and disregard Tytam Intermediate us au long as we do not insist upon munity at large in an amateur way, the accidents which made Beetho Tytam Tuk real education? I have heard some startling things lately on this point. I know of one school on the South Coast where the headmistress

because it was the good amateurs ven appear as a practical joker, a Pokfulum

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We might more profitably listen to

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346.10 402.00 Mr. Bernard Johnson, in refer- his music and grasp its meaning, and Hill, District in millions and de. in millions and decimals of alone dur Consumption of water in the City Consumption of water in Kowloon "THE CHINA MAIL," General will not employ a music teacher ring to the interest village com-if we can." And here, again we

who possesses musical diplomas munities took in music lectures, in- must subduct and disregard a few cimals of gallons during the month aring the month of January,

January......

1920 1927 alone, but insists on the B.A. de- stanced the case of a farmer who more accidents. We must, for one

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