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NOTES OF THE DAY

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JUNE 11, 1935.

HIGHBROW RUINING

MUSIC

By ERIC COATES,

: (ENGLISH COMPOSER)

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES

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There is no zealot like a new- mado saint. It is the same in other walks of life. In polities the most extreme reformer is he who has no experience of reforma. He goes merrily into the unknown and pays for his experience. Some- thing of this airy spirit of adven-O-DAY, while the gramophone (programmes with great master- and the loud-speaker are pleces? There are often three or ture is seen in the policy of the Turkish Republic. The other day bringing music into thousands of four in an evening. No wonder it was intimated that, women's homes, it is unfortunately true that concert-goers suffer from aural in- that has been in use in my atore to know what kind of a deal you age being a personal matter, they Music herself is far from well. digestion; and I venture to suggest for thirty-two years. It is getting were at liberly to choose any age| As a composer, who has had the that the introduction of well-made somewhat shaky, and I would like they preferred, and have their good fortune in capture the public "entertainment" music would not choice officially registered. Now ifancy with a series of orchestral only aid the digestion but would would make me on a new one. is misle known that class distinc-works, perhaps I may be able to make concerts more genial affairs. This is one of your No. 2, patented Unfortunately, geniality is ex-June, 1870. I would be willing throw a little light on this para- tion is to be no more, and that men

actly what the intellcetuals are to exchange it for one of your and women will have equal rights, { dox.

determined to avoid at all costs new.atyle mills but I think you With equal rights will come equal As I see it, the crux of the pro- Yet Haydn, the father of the should pay me nome cash differ- responsibilities, even to the extent

Much of attached to the old mill. of sharing the duty of nationalblem lies in that awful gulf he modern symphony, was the supreme ence as I have become very much Hoping to hear from you soon Cars defence. This is taken to be thetween the confessed highbrows and jester among musicians. at Popular Prices. meaning of the principle now that section of the public whose his music is sheer entertainment, THE FINEST SALOON MODELS pourred that all the country's musical appetite is satisfied only by but it is revered to-iny because of in this matter, I remain, forces and resources, human and unlimited jazz. This "split" is ats superb craftsmanship. Light Six Standard £220. De Luxe £240. material, shall be hard for its comparatively recent phenomenon. de fetare. It is not Thanght that Big Six

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The strictures that have been Passed by a board of University

other authorities and

training Trst present methods of

On

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We could do with more of his For example, in the eighteenth spirit, and I am convinced that if A little it would contribute con- century there was no such this composers would sometimes unbend as highbrow music; people never siderably to a renewed interest in sat in solemn conclave to decide music among the people. whether a certain piece was worthy

Fortunately, the lure of the of their consideration. If Mozart foreign name is not so great as it wrote the "Jupiter" symphony, he was, but there are still people who talk about Mendelssohn's also wrote a number of serenates will and what were known as direrlim-Labgesang rather than Hymn of enti, and no one thought the less Praise, and in hundreds of other of him for it, As their name imases an English title is considered plies, these divertimenti, were per-tuo plebeinn. What nonsense formed simply as diversions, usual is, and how damaging to the (ally out of doors at a garden party spread of good music!

or on summer evening after din

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On the Continent, a man like

But if some distinguished com Lahar will have bis music regu- mudichue and arrgery will dir poser of our own day wrote larly performed by such orchestras. sympathetic echods in other pro-intermezzo for a cinema orchestra fe sinus. The tendency to impose there would be an outery, and as the Vienna Philharmonic, and a greater and greater strain on the people would say he was selling his have often heard my own works orchestras. In England we owe a absorptive and retentive powers of soul and worshipping Mannon, broadcast from abroad by large The memory is general, and of very and goodness knows what else.

debt of gratitude to Sir Thomas doubtful utility, in that it may give

Beecham for horrifying a sedate Thus music has gradually re- Philharmonic audience by opening priority to students with little more than a goal memory in com- çeted from our public life, and has his programme with the Overture mend them, and exclude those with become the cult of a few intellecto "William Tell." Many came to that indefinable "something extra" uals. When anything becomes ajeer and stayed to cheer, for he that carries a man woman, to cult it is a sure sign of its death. showed them that the music, me The reason why jazz is so splendid- often massacred by fourth-rate alatinetion in his or her calling.

or

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The tragedy is that so many of ur Anest composers either refuse to recognise this or, if they do, will not conderernd to write music

tor.

"the capacity for innocent en- joyment." spending the first part of a concert devising neat epigrams to fire off at their friends in the interval. The last thing they want to do is to enjoy themselves.

· Respectfully yours,

Clarence

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is good enuf for me. an article in yesterday's Tele-present methods of medicat teach it can never be revived in an in-

veakness. The strain which the puff of Stephenson's "Rocket," and of our finest orchestra and conduc-examin him.

It is pathetic that AO MRRY graph asserts, thai Pan-Ameri-ing impoar en the memory is dustrial epoch; its value today is can Airways has been compelled paralleled in the training necessary purely antiquarian. But that is people have lost what Gilbert cafl- to various other professions, and no reason why jazz should mono- to abandon the idea of making the suggestion of the medeni polise the affections of the masses Canton the terminus of its trans-authorities already quoted that Indeed, when any competent or- Pacific service, a new factor has there should be less memorising of chestra plays gond light music it arisen in the Far Eastern' com-applicable to that department of audience.

innumerale small details is not invariably scores a success with its

I have no underlying occasion. for complaint, but mercial aviation situation-one study alone, Examinations, as

It was amusing to read the re! It seems to me that the munthly which, if wisely utilised, should tests of the power to remember a present Hongkong with a magni-ultitude of facts, become stiffer,

views of shocked critics when the bills for the consumption of gar

Philharmonic played call for too high amounts. but there is no evidence that they

Vienna

neighbours ficent opportunity. Seemingly, are producing a larger percentage which the public can understand. Strauss waltzes at the Albert Hall. neighbours, and my the position now is that Ameri- of brilliance in those who manage Not only ago I was having lunch Happy the man who can enjoy a profess, and I know, that they use can Airways is prepared to bring to surmount the formidable paper with a follow composer when the Beethoven symphony. a Schubert as much gas as I do and you my

hurdles that are drawn up for their orchestra struck up a popular tune. song, a Verdi opera, a Liszt rhap- bills are larger than those its service into Hongkong from confusion. It may well is that the My friend was indignant: "Why sody, a Strauss waltz, a Sousa them. All of which occasions this Manila, provided it can here link results are the other way round, must we have that hackneyed tune march, and a good modern dance writing, my thinking being,

That either you occasionally did up with the China National Avia- and that by conferring an advan-again and again?" he exelnimel tune.

tage on the "crammer" we are | "Because,” I might have said, "you Rossini used to say that there "slip-ups" on reading my meter, tion Corporation service, and patting a premium on mediocrity, and other composers persist in were only two kinds of music- C.N.A.C. officials are willing to to the permanent detriment of the standing aloof when you ought to good and bad, and when Rossini That there is something faulty

he increasing the repertory."

mel Beethoven, the master's part- with the meter. provide the link if-permitted uation. landing rights in this Colony, ¡ This change in the situation would appear to call for recon-" sideration of Britain's air policy

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ing words to the gay Italian were: Two cases are just as bad, and There is nothing degrading in "Give us plenty of Barbers," in-like adjustment. If you are in writing for the public. The comferring that Rossini's genius lay clined to think of the meter, please position of popular music is no in comic operas like "The Barber see to it but everybody especial- easier than the writing of sym. of Seville" rather than in serious Iy 21 meter-reader, is phonic works,

But the hard fact remains that

works.

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It would do us good sometimes enough to look with harry-scarry

concern during haste. these words of so soon na any music becomes to remember

Yours truly, popular, the intellectuals will ban Beethoven when we see ourselves

'Au Tin Sun, Why is it necessary to stuff in danger of becoming bighbrow.

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