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MUSIC · DRAMA

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AS BIOGRAPHY.

TO BAN JAZZ.

RADIO "BACKGROUND OF NOISE."

A MENACE, TO WHITE

RACE..

same

way 18 a

Biological Aspect of

MUSIC IN BRITAIN.

BIR T. BEECHAM'S OPERA SCHEME.

Mr. Frank Howes, in approach-Memory and Jazzery" was the title and after having had our expec After a long period of waiting ing the subject of musical appre-given by Sir Henry Coward, con- tations tickled by many promises clation at a meeting of the Incor- ductor of the Sheffield Orchestral of unveiling, we are at last al- : porated Society of Musicians, laid Society, to a talk to the Incorpor lowed to know Sir Thomas Bee- it down as a first essential that ated Society of Musicians. It fol- cham's scheme called "The Im-

lowed, as he explained, his recent perial League of Opera." music should be regarded as condemnation of this newer form

Briefly, it is as follows:-Sir an experience in much the of music, and he carried Thomas estimates that there are summer holi- his criticism a stage further by 150,000 músic-lovers willing to declaring that on moral and ethical pay twopence a week. If these day or falling in love was an grounds jazz should be banned 160,000 will promise ton shillings experience. The supreme arguand suppressed.

per annum for three years there ment in favour of musical appre- "Many people must be asked will be an income of £60,000. Five clation, he said, was that they got themselves where we are drifting," or six months in London and he said, "We see a decided lower-shorter seasons in Birmingham, from music, as they got from life ing of the pre-war standarde in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liver- itself, just as much and no more ethics, morals, language, and con-pool, and Manchester, will involve than they put into It. For in-duct. Joined to this there is an annual expenditure of £50,000 stance, the people who turned on feverish exploitation of low types and leave £10,000 as a safety mar-

of pleasure in the younger genera- xin. their wireless sets at mid-day and tion. This has led to synchronise There will be a business, man- kept them going until midnight | with, or, the vulgarisation of Eng-agement committee of three. Sir did so not from any appreciation lish taste and artistic ideals by Thomas will be. solely responsible of music, but because they liked a pictures, the unutterable Yankee tion of artists. He will have the means of many American cinema for productions and for the. selec- continuous noise as a background

musical comedies, revues, to their other occupations. Music

and assistance of an advisory board of had become to them a drug, a kind Where are the white races drift- Ronald, and Mr. Frederick Austin, plays, until we are led to exclaim: experts, including Sir Landon of "audible tobacco," and, like all

A permanent orchestra will be heavy smokers, such people tend-ing, morally, ethically, artistically,

and commercially?' I am not a formed, which will give symphony ed to stick to "gaapers," and to pessimist, but I wish to preserve concerts in addition to operatic eschew the more aromatic flavours. the dignity of the white races performances. Members of the (Laughter.)

against the decadent tendencies league will be able to get a rebate Dealing with what he describ-which we see on every hand, but of 10 per cent of the price on ed as "biographical listening," Mr. which, happily, are not universal their subscription tickets. Prices Howes said if they were to realise or irreparable. fully every composer's point of.

"If we wish to avoid the fate of view, they must not only listen the great Empires which have historically, but biographically. dominated and declined, including At the same time, it was often Egypt, Babylon, Greece and Rome, hazardous to try to reconstruct a

we must see that our lotus-eating man's life and personality by his does not take the place of work- artistic works. Undoubtedly aling, and that we do not allow jazz man did express himself in his art, to pay fat dividends, while steel, but it was not always a true ex-cutlery and plate, cotton and cloth pression of his personality. The languish and our high thinking and theme underlying much of Wag spirituality decay." ner's work, for instance, was re- nunciation, whereas the secret of

the

of admission to all parts of the theatres, except for festivala or special performances, will be simi- lar to ordinary theatre prices.

The scheme has had a good press and there have been few objec- tions raised to it by the public.

Left Out.

FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1928;

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert

but our readers are worned to look out for occasional

phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

19

120

12

15

TO

13.

17

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34

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HORIZONTAL 1-Conjunction

-Railroad Post Offical

7-A mollusk with a

spiral shell -Listena 11-Place for storing

food

12-Small islanda 14-A head covering 15-implement 17-Preacher's title

(abbr.)

10-An anclosure for

live birds

21-A rollglous

celebration in honor of a salat 22-To walt on

The

24-To cock in the oven 26-A large bidy of

water

But it appears to me (writes Dr. W. G. Whittaker) that there are three serious flaws. initial circular mentions no town six above but London, and the enumerated. Such places as Aber- Newcastle, Bristol, Cardiff, are deen, Hull, Halifax, Bradford,

left out of count altogether. These are all large centres and

After observing that jazz was Wagner's life was that he could aw type of primitive music, with

neither

atavistic - renounce

other men's decidedly

tendencies, Sir Henry continued: "It is found- wealth nor other men's wives. (Laughter.) His works showed ed on crude rhythms suggested by traces both of his conscious and the stamping of the foot and the of his sub-conscious life, but with. clapping of the hands, and it al-

might have contributed a consider- out the aid of his biography it ways puts an emphasis would be impossible to say which grotesque by banninge and clang-able proportion to the whole, but was his life as known to the world.ings of pots, pans, or any shimmer- very few people will be willing to In writing music the composer was ing metallic substance, reinforced pay even the small sum of two- expressing character just as the by special drums, This latter has pence a week for the benefit of novelist wAN.

He did, in fact, to a great extent gone now, but opera-goers in other towns while

they themselves are starved. make his music sad, bold, or jolly, the same spirit is present. It de would have been quite possible for from which it followed that music bases both music and instruments the promoters to have said that became a commentary on life. His by making both, farcical.

The

It

26-A precious jewel 20-Boy's nickname 20-Fury

30-Herole peam 31-Day of the week

(abbr)

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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

HORIZONTAL (Cont.)

VERTICAL (Cont.)

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C-A piece of land

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40-Not cut

13-Bodily feeling

| 14-Ps03e01ca

16-Part of the face |18-A larga tub

20-Green 22-Sperklag

49-An alcoholic drink Precure 60-Disclos

62-Fee! carry 64-Hazardous

|68-Made Into a balo

58-Consumed

57-A barrel

VERTICAL

1-Girl's name

2-The universe,

27-Mate persona

131-Mare Independent

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a rocf 54-Ex-1417ation of

paln 3-Labried

37-To C'v'da

longitudinally 38-ndeavor 39-Mest genuina 40-Ong only

4-A substance exuded 11-A I¬wmzker

3-Unclean

from plants

B-Palenos

Tebbr.) 43-Reptile

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afate

7-Bar:com

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42-The eye

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C-Possessive pronoun ta-Regular (ebbr.)

SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES *Start out by filing in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. There will give you a line to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. À litter kelovga in each white space, words starting at the numbered saberto

· either horizontille er verslaglly or both.

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will

appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word

puzzle.)

music.

Sir Dan Godfrey wittily

own attitude towards appreciation noble trombone is made to bray shorter seasons would be given in was founded on the simple pro like an ass, guffaw like a village those centres where sufficient sup- position that music was life and idiot, and moan like a cow in dis-port is forthcoming, or that less- not mathematics; it was infectious tress. The silver-tongued trum- expensive operas, those which do and not watertight; the more one pet is made to screech; produce not require a large orchestra, pla- borate scenery, or a big east, put into it the more one found in sounds like drawing a nail on a

slate, tearing calico, or like a noc-be left out in the cold kills any aid that the British people were would be provided. But simply to it, and that, technical teaching apart, resourcefulness and enthu-turnal tom-cat: (Laughter.)

interest which might have been very fond of music, they would. siasm rather than system were re- Symptom of Atavism.

roused in those particular towns. listen to any amount, they would quired for spreading the contagion, "The next indictment is that A second point is in the attitude go any distance to hear it, they Dr. Markham Lee thought that jazz vulgarises the perception of of the British public towards would do anything for it, except great care had to be exercised tone qualities. Just fancy the de-

Most provincial -pay for it! when they attempted to arouseplorable taste of a man who can

societies suffer severely financial- children's interest in the compos-tolerate, the dull, cloudy, hooty,

are

were

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(OTKY INTERNATIONAL SYNDATE

er as a man. They were going to out-of-tune tone of a saxophone, or a figment of an over-powerful ima-y because people are not willing get into very hot water if they the twangy banjo, which is forced gination," he said, "to conceive of to subscribe. in advance. tried to link up his music with his by its limited tonality and tech-this grant gigantic black man prefer to pay at the door. life or show that it was either the nique to an Incessant plong, plong, striding the world with a banjo in stormy night, a rival function, a same or different. As an example, plong, which is cked out by a act one hand and a saxophone in the political meeting or an election, a they could not very well enter into of exasperating tipity-tapati vamp- other, disintegrating the British whist drive or dance, is sufficient the details of Wagner's private life |ings. (Laughter.) The person Empire.". The restlessness of the to turn the scales, and the poor with A class of schoolgirls. who is unconscious of such bad post-war, generation which thought struggling concert society loses the (Laughter.)

taste is on a level with the rich of progress as speed, and a fast casual amounts which stand be- B.B.C. and Tuneful Music. parvenu who stuffs his rooms with life as necessarily a full life, would tween plenty and penury. It may Mr. Macdonald Smith suggested all sorts of gaudy ornaments and have had to, invent jazz if jazz that the surest progression in adorns his walls with oleographs. had not been there. musical appreciation was through The so-called jazz classics Mr. Reginald Batten, the leader is insufficient to change the course that it has its place in the national of human nature. I am not going life, and that we are considerably "Jazz" to tuneful melodies, theh merely deslocated jazz, and even of the Savoy Havana Band, in a from popular overtures to tuneful in that form they remind me of a letter which was read in support to prophesy, but it will be a sur-the poorer for its absence. But a classics, and finally to the best buffoon parodying serious speech, of jazz, wrote that many people prising thing to me if the desir-scheme which depends upon the personality of one man has no works of Beethoven and Bach, and Those and all the other charac- who continually damning ed 150,000 come forward.

The third factor is to be found foundations of permanence, and in some cases to the compositions teristics of jazz indicate atavism, dance-music had never heard any of modern music. Dealers in what a going back to the standards and of the best dance bands, many of in the personality of Beecham. were it, to fail prospects of a re had been termed "mechanised conditions of the cave man and the which had "arrived" because their That is an amazing genius in con-gular spell of good opera would one. will deny. But be postponed indefinitely. On Sir music," the piano-player and the negro of the Southern plantations. renderings of popular numbers ducting no gramophone, had observed that The popularisation of this class were musically clever and pleas-successful opera needs more than Thomas's head rests a greater res- It needs careful, painstak-ponsibility than he realises at pre- progressive change in customers' of music, with its reaction on sub-ing. Modern dances were design- this.

and sent. utmost ori-ing organisation, endless requirements. He also thought conscious memory, evoking praced to allow for the

Since the above was written The individual dancer minute rehearsing, detailed thor- "THE CHINA MAIL" General that the B.B.C., which was having tices and usages of the past, auchginality.

there is a press interview with Printers.

an immense influence on popular as immodest dances, led to a lower-had ceased to be an automaton,oughness in every department.

Sir Thomas has not only shown Beecham. He finds that the rosy tastes through its orchestral and ing of the prestige of the white and that he thought was the secret

possess these prospects of the first few days military bands, in giving auch a races. To check any further loss of the enormous success of dance that he does not

The pes- small proportion of tuneful music of prestige we must ban jazz." ing at the present time.

qualities of permanence, but they have faded somewhat. Mr. Arthur Bliss, the composer, was missing the best method of

Sir Henry Coward, replying to are in every way antipathetic to simism of his remarks may be a diplomatic move in the game. I creating a musical public. It was, disagreed with much that Sir the discussion, admitted that jazz him.

The orchestra- It is my earnest wish that the hope that it is, but it seems rather in fact, omitting several rungs of Henry Coward had argued. "It is had good points.

While I to indicate that the flaws in the the ladder leading from low-brow

tion, he, said, was very good, but scheme should succeed.

many to high-brow, which had to bel

there had been some very good or do not think that opera is the scheme are apparent to

highest form of art, I do recognise would-be subscribers. climbed step by step. :'

chestration without jazz.

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