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"A. K." writes in the Daily NersOne of the special pre- occupations of musicians and scholastic One of the reasons of music of the highest kind There is another side to it-the development of a national school serious music lovers in these days why the efforts of the folk-song such labours are invaluable. The of reconstruction is the revival of enthusiasts sometimes fail is belief is gaining ground more and folk song.

A few weeks ago we that they have had the foundation of a

not always more that no national music can kept the two apart and have have a healthy life that has not league which aims at making the frightened the people by dis its roots deep down in the songs people sing its own songs at the

|plays of irrelevant erudition-25, of the people. Much has been we all look forward. Now we wickshire shepherd whether he but it is many great celebrations to which for instance, by asking a War-done by our younger composers, not enough to hear of B coming great knew the version of & "Peace take a folk tune and turn extension of activity on the part Egging Song

differs from the it with self-conscious artifice into of the Folk Song and Folk Dance Suffolk version by having a flat-ultra-modern rhapsodies. The two Society in the same direction. tened leading note in a different elements must be combined as by The seed sown by the old Folk place and not, being quite so spontaneous impulse into an in- Song Society twenty years or pentatonic in feeling.

dissoluble whole. A study of the more ago has fallen on fruitful soil.

The result is that the shepherd great masterpieces from this point thinks his song is something of view teaches us many things. The movement has two sides. dangerously foreign and will re- Folksong elements are found It is at once democratic in that it fuse to sing it any more. Such where they are least expected, and may be made a powerful instru- things have been known to hap- they are always a source of ment for spreading happiness pen.

strength and vitality. among the people. To make the

Another caution to the zealots. This branch of the subject is, masses return to the good old however, & fascinating subject of They grow too apt to think that tunes and the good old dances, study for the musician, and the the original folk song sung by an racy of the soil, instead of spoil-idea of the Folk Song Society that untaught peasant or seaman is ing their taste by sloppy shop the study of Folk Song should re- necessarily a finer thing than the ballads or the antics of degenerate ceive its ultimate canonisation music a Beethoven or a Bach negroid races is a great work.

The experience of the war has Chair is excellent. It has been talk like that they cease to be by the foundation of a University bas created from it. When they shown that the masses can be put into practice with fine results musicians, and.. become mere weaned from the love of the in- in other countries. The professor enemies of true musical progress. ferior rubbish which the big could arbitrate with fine impart towas provide so plentifully. The fiality between the Irishman who better music must be brought to claims The Girl I Left Behind them when the men come home Me," the Scot who says it comes to the workshop and the farm from Lanarkshire, and the Eng she was a girl, a 71-year old wo

Unable to attend, school when The The British peoples have treasures lishman who swears it is County man is a first-year student in the of folk song inferior to none and Bucks. Other things, too, the superior to most. The old Eng-professor could investigate with Janshin Jogakko, a school for lish, Scottish, and Irish dances much advantage.

He could girls in Azabu, where she recites are just as picturesque, just as decide whether the Norman her lessons with her grand- good an expression of national Conquest left its mark on English daughters, and is fast learning to character as those of any nation song; whether Spanish elements understand the Buddhist bible, in Europe.

No nation has as fine an the precise relationship between which she has been reading crept in in Tudor times; what is the meaningless characters of instinct for part-singing as the the Breton folk song and the since childhood, according to the people of Wales. But we ara Coronach, and whether North Yomiuri, The woman is Mrs. Mitsu-ko Enata, who lives with her son at Imssato, Kanasugi, Shiba-ku, Tokyo. She walks from her son's house to her classes each morning. She. envies the girls of modern Japan, who she says, have all the opport unities for study that were not available daring her girlhood. Mrs. Ehata will be graduated with her grand-daughters form Junish Jogakko next spring.

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DEATH OF FAT GOODWINA few days later he married stage career beg The death is announced by dns Goodrich, another American m 1873 in The Reuter's New York correspondent

of Mr. Nat Goodwin, one of the stress, who had been his leading York. For the

American stage. Deceased; who

the Also divorced him, played comedy

then be married. Mies he came to London:

was 62 years of age, was almuargaret Mareland, another of in 1890 he had show

his leading ladies, and she and direcastøckt. obtained a divorce in September lam Tast: A Central News telegram & nar

states that with Mr. Goodwin as BEY has death

Miss GeorZAR

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