THE HONGKONG Telegraph, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1938.
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Billy Cotton's Orchestra
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TRITING an article about popular
music is no joke!
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What is popular music -"The Raggle-Taggle Gipsies," Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, "Just a Song at Twilight." September in the Rain," The, Red Flag," Chopin arranged as ballet music, or the latest chip from the Schönberg workshops?
You
It's a difficult question, isn't it? know the answer, of course, and I know it, but I wonder if we ugree. Everybody answers it by
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is a pastime that has been played for centuries. Hero, for example, is Aristotle, getting concerned "The about the music of the three-fifties B.C. flute," he declares, indignantly, "is not an Instru- ment which has a good moral effect; it is too excit- ing." That might almost be Sir Henry Coward talking In 1929. "Jazz," said
Hongkong Hotel Sir Henry, "Is sordid
Garage
Showroom
and materialistic, empty of sentiment and emotion. It has
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1038.
ARMS CANNOT BRING SECURITY
During the present year Great
..Jay Wilbur's Band Britain will spend between 9146 My Cabin of Dreams-F.T....Dick Robertson's Orchestra £320,000,000 and £340,000,000
Till the Clock strikes three-F.T.
9148 Dixon Hits No. 16
9152 Yours and Mine-F.T.
For You Quick Step 9156 Sandy's Happy Home
9157 Sweet Adeline
A Little bit of Heaven
9161
Gipsy Violin
9153
9167
Dick Robertson's Orchestra on the three defence services ..Reginald Dixon and, in addition, from £5,000,000 .Brian Lawrence's Orchestrato £10,000,000 on air raid pre- Brian Lawrence's Orchestra cautions. These colossal auma .Sandy Powell will be expended, not because the Joe Peterson the British people' have
The Organ, the Monkey and mo
Moon at Sea
So Rare..
Joe Peterson slightest desire for military ad-
Gracie Fields ventures, but because the efforts Gracie Fields
of successive British Govern- Vera Lyn ments to persuade the world to: Vera Lyn
[disarm_and_abolish war as a
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"Jazz," counters Jack Hylton, "has no- thing to do with the smug nonsense of cle- valing the mind."
un-
DON'T
SHOOT
"You're quite right,"- agrees Aldous Huxley. "Monotonously, ceasingly, the banjos throbbed out the dance rhythms. An осса- sional squenk Indi- cated the presence of a violin. The trumpet could be heard tooting away with a dreary persistence at the tonic and dominant; and clear above all the rest the saxophone voluptuously caterwauled.
Jcek fiption trica a new number: but they don't all gain such popu larity as "What'
I do?"
the BAND!
"At this distance every tune
sounded exactly the same."
by
cing are not always popular, elther. Sharp, in a letter, de- scribes a minor revolt:
"The other I was conch-
Yet how naively adventurous Stuart Fletcher ing a Morris side made up of
the early days of jazz sound when Louis Armstrong, king of Jazz trumpeters, describes them
to us.
"When I was about thirteen years old I started up a singing quartet with three of the best
singing boys from my neigh- bourhood. Believe me, we four were singin' fools. No kiddin' We went out big for the new jazz songs.
"We used to go through all the pleasure sections of New Orleans, around the big hotels and night clubs, and even the honky tonks or 'gin mills, as they were called, and we would sing for the people, then pass
the hat.
"We sang the new jazz songs, and got to learn how to sing them "hot."
Enthusiasts will tell you that
to the sacrifices which will be the number of workers in the required to give it defence forces armament industries will have
equal to its responsibilities In to be increased considerably be- the fore the full capacity of
is rearmament programme
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'The
Jazz is the folk-song of the modern world. What do the old folk-singers have to say about that?
When Cecil Sharp went folk- song-hunting in the English countryside sometimes, his blo- grapher says, "he would be sit- ting quietly with an old couple listening with enjoyment when the peaceful atmosphere would be disturbed by the noisy en- trance of the grandchildren, Who would be shocked to find their grandparents singing their silly old songs to the gentleman, and would endeavour to rein- state the family reputation by turning on the gramophone with the latest music-hall re- cords.
*** Can't make no idea to it, no more than that chair,' said one old man. Tis a gabble of noise with no meaning to it."
Folk-singing and folk-dan-
The Very Idea
University Professors, One of them habitually omitted the hop in the '4/3' step. So I stood before him and showed him what he was doing and what he ought to do.
"He said: 'Yea, I know that. but I am not hopping to-day." I heard afterwards that he was going to a tea-party after the rehearsal and didn't want to spoll his collar!"
Another kind of popular music came in for a trouncing one Christ- mas Day in London 47 years ago by no less a critic than Bernard Shaw,
"The music publishers of London owe me their acknowledgments," ho announced, "for having de- voted Christmas Day to examin- ing sundry parcels of music with which they have from time to time favoured me of late.
sorry fact is, however, LET DOCTOR
FIX YOUR
"At the first blush it seemed as E the publishers expected me to review them, and yet how could any sane man of business suppose that there was the faintest chance
KELLY
STOMACH!
By Dr. Edward Kelly M.D. R.I.P,
"DACRYOCYSTITIS," he of Hammer Toe. It wRB 23 Hix-
I fell on our big, or main, toc, or, na we technically call it, our ptomaine.
Wo suffered from gout for over a
week.
of my recommending the public to sing:
Will he come? Will he come?
my heart!
0,
tam waiting and watching in vain, Ere twilight's soft shadows depart,
O, come to me, come once again!
16
Waltz Refrain.
Just tum tum)
Once (tum} -
Gain (fum tum).
(Tum) When Die, etc., etc.
People in search of trash will get no assistance from me, un- less I take to composing it my-
Belt,"
I could, if I cared to, regale you with similarly vicious criticisms of the music of Brahms, and Wagner, Beet- Mozart, Schumana, and hoven.
I could quote you a description of a symphony by Beethoven- that was istened to a few even- ings ago by hundreds of thousands. when Toscanini conducted it at the work of a Queen's Hall-as madman, an absurd eccentrielty." And the writer was a noted critic of Beethoven's time.
Instead, let us read about some music so popular that audiences could not have enough of it,
Elizabethan audiences had a habit which did not die out until last century of calling out for the tunca they wanted played.
Sometimes they divided them- selves into parties calling for rival tunes, and poited the orchestra with apples and oranges when they did not got what they wanted. Often the musicians were forced for their own protection to play behind the scenes!
When a new theatre was opened in Boston-in-1794,-tho-musicians found that the American public was not going to drop an English tradition without a struggle." So they appealed to the audience:- "The musicians that perform in the
the Boston orchestra of Theatre assure the public that it is not more their duty than it is their wish to oblige in playing such tunca as are called for, but at the same time they wish them to con- sider the peculiar poignancy of Insult to men not accustomed to it.
"Thus altuated, they cotreat a generous public so far to compas- sionate their feelings as to prevent the thoughtless and indisposed from throwing apples, atones, etc., into the orchestra, so that while they cat the bread of industry in free country it shall not be tinc- tured with the polson of humilla- tion."
When Thomas Bellamy, the bass. took over the management of the Belfast Theatro In 1800, he let it be
known at the outset that he would
stand no nonsense.
"To prevent any unpleasant consequences which may arise from airs being called for not ad- vertised in the bills," he said, "the public is informed that God Save We have also been unfortunate
the King will be performed by the band at the end of the fourth with our cases of beri-beri. We
act of the play, St. Patrick's Day have had to beri most of them.
prior to the farce, and Rute Britan Our most interesting experieneestal between the first and second have been with ulcera.
One striking feature of the reached. rearmament programme is the greatly increased cost of
that with all this enormous material and equipment for the
expenditure, security, which is fighting man. In 1913-14 the the aim of the British Govern- cost of the British Army and ment, is still out of reach. No Navy was £77,000,000. In a matter how vast the navy, army
We will never forget our last case typical year after the war-and air force they cannot guar-
said, in a hushed voice. pound hammer, and we dropped it 1324-it was £113,000,000. In antce peace. They may be of
It's a disease of the eye. on our stockinged foot. 1937 the cost of the three de-sufficient strength to protect the What we professional men
Empire, to defeat any power or refer to as an eye-ful. group of powers attempting its As we have-have, wel Yet the personnel of the Army conquest, and to discourage am- said!-a pain in the neck, and Navy in 1913-14 numbered bitious peoples who might con- we thought we would tell you to-day about our experiences Last year, template an invasion, but they as a doctor. in spite of the tremendous in-
In fact, we were at one time "Duck" Kelly, they used to call certain safeguards
ALO. to the Royal Ulcer Rifles, That was because we were crease in expenditure from £77-against death and destruction
They were a gland lot of patients. a quack.
One of the privates was always 000,000 to £278,000,000, the per-which
must precede the most
We became a specialist in no trying to get into the hospital be sonnel numbered only about
time. Helped by our Directory, cause he had a mash on a nurar. brilliant victory.
wo could dingnose complaints Uned to come up to us every morn 350,000, Meanwhile, the pace.
almost immediately. Hongkonging for medical inspection. Dog if he was a Kowloon patient; he had a gall Plain Wind if he belonged to the Rotary Club; Indigestion If he came from Happy Valley; Fintulence if he was from the Mid-Levels, and a 3500 acute appendicitis operation if We often thought of writing to the B.M.A journal about some of
In Hongkong.
about 377,000 men.
are
Tot
419.
of rearmament quickens rapidly. The world-and Britain-pays for Its stupidity in its failure "Our rearmament program- to govern itself in sums beyond me,"
said Sir Thomas Inskip, calculation and all too frequently Minister for Co-ordination of with the lives of its people.he was from the Penk.
EZ Defence, recently, "has not at Enough money is spent on arma
tained anything like the momen-and munitions to bring compara-the Interesting cases we encountered
tum it will have reached in tive affluence, if properly dis- eighteen months time." Theretributed, to the world's workers
THAT SINKING FEELING D
There was, for instance, a case of are new establishments which'in whose name nations go ad- Ewos, sent up to us by mia are still only in the early stages venturing for wider markets take one day. This is a mont mya-
tòrious discaso: ondemfu Orient. of erection or preparation, and and greater empires.
to
the
Once it was gall-stones. But he was always tryiur to kidneys way pasta.
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We wept when they embarked for India by the troopship Neuralgin.
Things have not gone well for us since they departed. Can you spare a dollar to buy some polish to brigh- ten up our name-plate?
Thank you, thank you! If your cold gets too bad, we know just the thing to fix your coffin,
Well, well, well,
Or, as we would say in hospital, "Nurse to you!"
acts, and on no account will they be played at any other period of the evening."
that They say
musle hath
the chatma to sootho
*SAVAKO breast, but history socms to show that it has precisely the opposite effect.
The reader may have noticed that having a horrible cold-F have very sensibly made other people write this article for me. -Z will give my inat word to a poet, George Herbert, who surely penned of an unanswerable fragment music criticism.
"Music," he said, "holps not the toothachel"
-To-day's Thought ------ I CARE not who writes the laws of a country so long. ce. may listen to its songt.
-0. J. NATHAN.
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