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MUSIC

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OWADAYS, 12

song Another poor genius

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hit can make a small Wolfgang Mozart. Born in 1750, he was only tive when he còm- fortune for the composed a minuet. Although he poser. Yet most of the rumped as a child with a little creators of classical music princess, Merie Antoinette, who wore lucky if they could became Queen of Franco, Mozart

was destined to poverty.

afford to eat.

One winter day, a friend found the composer pad

Franz Schubert was one who attributed his music hlo wife waltzing round the to "my genfus and my room. "We were cold," they said, Į misery. His parents were *nnd we have no wood for a

terribly poor, which,

con. Are" sidering they had nineteen children to bring up, is not to be wondered at.

Bul genius will out. and Schubert became a composer ut clovea. He also became Ger- man's greatest writer of classical songs—more than 300 of them. Unfortunately, some of his finest songs were sold for the price of

meal.

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Schuber's Ure was a success- ion of slights, Insulta and dis

and he suffered appointmens, grindmg poverty before he died at the age of only 32.

HE RESTORED THEE

W

SOUL TO MAN

HAT Thomas

Henry

Huxley

did. Aldous

By LES ARMOUR

Leonard Huxley have any intelligent apm at all.

must be animal perfection has devoted his life to tip- doing.

Huxley realised early that he readd never be a perfect muilinad. It was that which turned him

Man,

If this were a mere nct to the older Ideal-the of impiety by a grandson aderi of Christianity and all the

reltoons toward his grandfather, it gr

to the would hardly concern man vines, was always imperfect. always half-broken. He was in kind in generui, But the weld not to achieve annel truth is that Thomas Henry perfection but to strive after iluxley ushered in in spatial perfection tellectual revolution which Thereafter. Aldous Huxley's struck at the roots of man's my concern was with has batije view of himself, and left the

Jactics.

He Arst erupted in print, in

intellectuais of two whole 1918, with a volume of poetry. generations alone and adrift gratie, mocking poetry which in a universe in which they now and then could find no resting place, vintent Aldous Huxley has tried to shucture of modern man

exploded is a scourge of

restore man to his old place. *******

T

worth *iganstic

Ble plate The tar of Darwin nerons N combinet: He opened the dow. 10 [***

Bateriitsin Perentiu which ultimately proclažnej) the universe was the only without value bat without values

Aldous h Tabaret ( 10 Year: fe than

way in which levale AS WE

man can agora soul

The lines of attack have hten They range Fatire of

from it turning

the strow

Principal weapons

Two more volumes of poetry followed They were success- ful as successful, at least, as poetry ever

be They shocked the gentle lettantes who buy voluntes of paelry, but no more than any survector

other poetry in attracting the readers le Whom Huxley wanted in talk.

He hit the headlines the other day by get- ting

in married Gretna Green style at the age of 61 to a 40- year-old Italian vio- linist, Laura Rachera. The Brave New World author and his bride drove 300 miles to Yuma, in the Arizona desert, and "simply got married" in the

"Drive-in

Wedding

Chapel." Highbrow Huxley (Eton and Oxford)

is

writing

scenarios for Hollywood. But he has also added another

the long

book to

list standing to his name —-- "Heaven and Hell." Les Armour provides a new appraisal of a great Twentieth Century personality.

He

In it he attempted to chart again for modern man some of the wisxiom of the mystics emphasised the central point of the great mystics-the

of the

the Divine which the mystics Jound.

Nor is it wholy immune from criticism. After

tempted to ask,

isions

ail,

aro

on

not the

It produces Just hallucinations? Are just more

In spite of all this hardship, Mozam produced 789 composi-

tions before he died, still under 40.

Mozart's end was poignant. Takan ill in 1791, he wrote a famous Requiem as his. condi- tion worsened, and had it sung around his death-bed to hear its affect. His body was put in pauper's grave, and as a terrible storm arose on the day of the funeral, only the undertaker and his men were at the cemetery to see him buried.

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Years later, when Mozart's genius was remembered, nobody could identify his grave, and the monument to him in Vichna Comelery stands over an empty grave.

TWICE WENT BANKRUPT

One composer who did make money--and gave a lot of it to charity--was George Handel, the son of a barber. But even he had his failures and was twice bankrupt. He settled in London jand turried from writing operas

to his famous oratorios.

man Handel was called the who set the Bible to music- Allo and he very nearly did.

other, he wrote more than 20 "The including oratorios, not Messiah" which takes over two they acceptable but no hours to sing-in only 23 days. more interesting than the dirty When Handel died, in 1759, crawling

revealed things

In he was not forgotten like Mozart." advanced delirium tremens?

His body was laid to rest In The answer depends on the Westminster Abbey-a signal view you take of the human honour for a naturalised Briton, mind. Huxley, like many great philosophers, odberca

to the "Instrumental theory of Mind, on this theory,

So poor were the parents of Franz Haydn that he had to capable leave school and earn his living af perceiving vast universes. us a child, The family, lived in But biological necessity derived a wretched farmhouse, but un- from its momentary attachments like most composers Haydn did a human body restricts it to receive encouragement from his the perception of a small real fagged when things went wrong. peasant father. He was even which has biological utility. jf that necessity can be interefered with--by

fasting, by meditation or by a

a drug-it is capable of a wider scope.

The theory is as good as uny yet evolved to explain mind. But it is one of many, and it is not yet proved,

Serious warning

took the fancy

in Inter yours, Haydn's sonutas of a wealthy and she introduced countess. him to pupils who paid well. HYMN OF DEFIANCE

When Hayda was dying in Vienna in 1800, the French were bombarding the town. Al-

around though everyone

hirn was terrified, he took it all very lifted calmly and asked to be from his bed to the plano. Meanwhile, the proof of the While guns thundered outside. caling is in the seeing when it he played his famous "Austrian comes to mescalin. The would- Hymn" over and over again. be visionary must try for him- self.

BUT

At that very moment, nn- other great composer,

Ludwig

rifle for a more effective sub- day world around us lavery not, on the whole, prepared to MESCAL, PROPERLY TAKEN, 0073. Not that he was afraid of

He abandoned poetry accord- ingly-bandoned with no more apparent regret than "Brave New World" and "Ape soldier would feet at abandoning Lod Essent

to the inel X- of the exvels and machine gm. planations prospvels of the drug mesenlin, Doors of published in "The Perception." and his new book,

"Henven und Hell,"

好

Larger, richer

a

fruction

real

Beyond #lie vast uncharted Ile came back to it occasivua)-

realms of the mind. And, be ly--when he felt the need of

cause our world of everyday slping weapon-but, since woking experience is only a then, his principol weapons fraction which we take to be the have boMI the novel and the whole, that everyday world ap-

pears distorted.

serious treatise.

His early novels were satirica)

Beyond is a world in which onslaughts on the intellectual values can be perceived directly world he knew best blting, and which is permanent, stable the amusing, widely rend, but some- and ordered-in which

Huxley charted their course admirably.

But he recognised one major

HERE A VERY van Beethoven, was crouched in flaw in his plan. Modern man SERIOUS WARNING, ALKALI a cellar with collon-wool in his

undergo these privations. And Is HARMLESS

AND NON-the guns, but he feared that tho temperament HABIT

FORMING BUT IT explosions would add to his in- makes him distrust anything MUST BE TAKEN

WITH creasing deafress. Ho did, in which he cannot test for him- CARE AND UNDER SUPER-fach, become almost totally deat self at first hand,

its

scientif

who

VISION DON'T ATTEMPT and never heard some of his

FOLLOW MR HUXLEY own great compositions. That explains Huxley's ex- TO

INTO HIS BRIGHT NEW periments with alkali mescol.

Poet of the piano, Frederic Mescalin as the drug is bet. WORLD WITHOUT MEDICAL

ADVICE.

Chopin, wrote dreamy, romantie ter known---has long been

musle, yet struggled for years Alard-by of, certain tribes of And then, as Mr Huxley's new

discase and weakness there is another against American Indians. They have book reveals,

to transport danger, What happens when until he died at 40. always used it themselves into the other you take the drug depends much

Perhaps the compostr

state.

You may find

His father Robert Schumann. clearer, whore things stand our

was a successful publisher. in their own right, where the

Mr. Huxley is the first to ad- Unfortunately, Robert's troubles works of God are more directly mit that the old-fashioned hard camo later. There was insanity work of the ancient divines lain the family. His sister died still the more certain and the at 20 from incurable melancholy, But he hopes that and the composer ¿pent his

shattered the know-alls, con- how lacking the essential ex- Diving Plan and even God broader world-the world where on your mental and moral-

He has cut down the pompous,

founded the experis, and ex- posed

the whole pose OL the mission. Twentieth Century Man with

plosive

element to accomplish Himself may be revealed to the the lines are drawn sharper and not in Heaven but in purpose had the easiest start in life was

the

willing observer.

but

was It

and

manifest.

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the scientife He simply took

The great mystics had to realm of visual experience-a There is a temptation lo des- wonderland which the enemy cribe Huxley as a rebel, except aimed at achieving and exposed undergo physical tortures and realm which cannot be described But it doer not to the full

glare of publie suffer untold mental agonies to in

it to

that, in the larger perspective analysis. He pletured a society achieve the desired end. the label appears patently ridiculous. He has always been in which man

on the side of tradition on the perfect an

had become co

that he

side of the mystles, the divines was

instr Som

of the great religions,

philosophers of antiquity.

the machinga

A

in which

which

He order had replaced chaos to the where society Whs a

is, la fact, In the proper sense point

of that word, a reactionary,

H

almple clockwork machine, in He was born on July 20, 1804, which man had so long belleved the son of Leonard Huxley and that he did not have a soul that Julia Arnold, a descendent of he had reached the point where Mathew Arnold,

he really did not have a sout,

He went to Eton and then to ********* Balliol College, Oxford. Не

wanted

to be a philosopher.

But his eyesight frustrated him,

At

tima,

during his years

at Balliol, he had to read in Braille.

More powerful

are not printed

alphabet for unclent Greek, fo' and Ester,"

"words.

reveal the direct

contact with

trying to drown himself in the

(COPYRIGHT)

Lot us pray that, if modern (Rhine.

follows his advice, tho destination is Heaven and not

man

Hell.

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SINGAPOREANS DON'T WANT

"INDEPENDENCE"

From RUSSELL SPURR

are

Singapore The week-end flasco in which shape of things to come 11 Mar- before havo Communists took hold of a shall and his associates

Marshall rally, charged the allowed to continue to lead this Singaporeans been so police and forced Singapore island to ruin and destruction.

N

TEVER

angry.

Thoy

ure bom- Ministers to take cover in lock- How can the parlimentary, de- He repeated the assault, with barding the local Press with ad rooms, has infuriated local legatos view what has happened Philosophical works even more powerful explosive, letters pleading that people and mightily impressed since they arrived in the colony the visiting delegation of Bri- as evidence of Singapora's rendi- in Braille and in his post-World War II vision Promler David Marshall PS, including Mr. Herbert ness and ability to run its own no one had yot dovised Brailla of the atomic cataclysm "Ape shall not be allowed "Inde Morrison and Mr. Geoffrey affaire? Marshall kas, warned that the fallure of hip mision ho wis force into English Assault, however,

pendence." And the over- Lloyd,

The Straits Times commented: to London next month, to 200 Illersture Instead.

accessarily only half of Huxley's whelming majority of theso singapore's Labour Cloyer Independence, will result in ana". Those years when he could programmo

protests are from Asfank, mom must censo its arook Battle other Cyprus. But we see the hardly son left a deep and bitter In addition to destroying the

Typical of the frenzied up with colonial oppression and by possibility of anothe impression on him. He had enemy's fortifications he had to post "Already this and has sene and good government now: Gularia," been taught, in the tradition of make plain the truth that des been brought near to disaster remove the chill of fear which An Indian resident told a that the rational, truction was intended to reveal: When the British” bend- over le beginning to gripally of correspondent, that he could col- ided was the corone, ananuno perfect physically and porrest tematineerde and one lowlader Care the lives of owe allegiance to Communian Aleiriolone or off them mentally t The whole

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