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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1988.

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RITING an article about popular music is no jakel.

"The

What is popular music Raggle-Taggle Gipsies," Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, "Just a Song at Twilight," "September in the Rain." "The Red Flag." Chopin arranged us ballet music, or the later.

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 agree. Everybody answers it by

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is a pastime that has been played for centuries. Here, for example, Is Aristotle, getting concerned about the music of the three-ties B.C. "The flute," he declares, indignantly, "is not an instru- ment which has a good moral effect; it is too exclt- ing." That might almost be Sir Henry Coward talking In 1920. "Jazz," said

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ARMS CANNOT BRING SECURITY

. Billy Merrin's Band Billy Merrin's Band Jay Wilbur's Band Robertson's Orchestra

Dick Robertson's Orchestra ..Reginald Dixon Brian Lawrence's Orchestra .Brian Lawrence's Orchestra cautions. These colossal sums

. Sandy Powell

Joc Peterson

During the present year Great Britain will spend between £320,000,000 and £340,000,000 on the three and, in addition, from £5,000,000

to £10,000,000 on air raid pre-

defence services

will be expended, not because

the British people have the

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and materialistic, emply of sentiment and emotion. It has no future! "

"Jazz," counters Jack Hylton," has no- thing to do with the smug nonsenso of cle- vating the mind."

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"You're quite right," agrees Aldous Huxley. "Monotonously, un- ceasingly, the banjos throbbed out the dance

An rhythms.

acca- sional squeak 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.

the

"At this distance every tune sounded exactly the same."

Yet how naively adventurous 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'!

Jazz songs.

Joe Peterson slightest desire for military ad- We went out big for the new Gracie Fields ventures, but because the efforts Gracie Fields of successive British Govern- Vera Lynments to persuade the world to Vera Lyndisarm and abolish war as #1 9167 Six Hits of the Day No. 14... Primo Scala Accordian Band means of settling international

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differences rivalries and

of

opinion were a failure. Now the country has reconciled itself: to the sacrifices which will be required to give it defence forces equal to its responsibilities in the world.

"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

the number of workers in the armament industries will have to be increased considerably be fore the full capacity of the rearmament programme

One striking feature of the reached.

is

rearmament programme is the The sorry fact is, however, greatly

increased

cost

enormous of that with all this material and equipment for the expenditure, security, which is

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ck Hylton tries a new number; but they don't all pain auch popu- fartty as "What'll I do?"

BAND!

by

cing are not always popular, either. Sharp, in a letter, de- scribes a minor revolt:

"The other day I was coach-

Stuart Fletcher ing a Morris side made up of

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 muslo-hall re-

cords.

"Can't make no idea to it, no

more than that chair,' said one

with no meaning to it."" old man. "Tis a gabbie of noise Folk-singing and folk-dan-

The Very Idea

University Professors. One of them habitually omitted the hop in the 4/3' step. Bo I stood before him and showed him what he was doing and what he ought to do.

"He said: 'Yes, 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." he 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.

"At the first blush it seemed as If the publishers expected me to review them, and yet how could any sane man of business suppose that there was the faintest chanco

LET DOCTOR KELLY

fighting man. In 1913-14 the the aim of the British Govern- FIX YOUR-STOMACH !

cost of the British Army and Navy was £77,000,000. In a typical year, after the war- 1324-it was £113,000,000. In

·

By Dr. Edward Kelly M.D. R.I.P.

We will never forget our last ruse a six-

of my recommending the public to sing:

Will he come?

my heart!

Will he come? ..

I am waiting and watching in vaft,

Ere twilight's soft shadows depart,

O, come to me, come once againt

#

Waltz Refrain.

Jus! (tum tuws).

Once (lum) a-

Gain (tum tum).

(Tum) When the, etc., elc.

People in search of trash

will get no assistance from me, un- less I take to composing it my self."

I cared to, regale you could, if with similarly vicious criticisms of the music of Brahms, and Wagner, Mozart, Schumann, and Beet- hoven.

I could quote you a description of a symphony by Beethoven- that was listened to a' few oven- ings ago by hundreds of thousands when Toscanini conducted it at Queen's Hall-as the work of a madman, an absurd eccentricity." 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 tunes they wanted played.

Sometimes they divided them- selves into parties calling for rival tunes, and pelted the orchestra with apples and oranges when they did not get 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 1704, the musicians found that the American public was not going to drop an English Bo tradition without a struggic. they appealed to the audience:- "The musicians that perform in the

of the Boston orchestra Theatro assure the pubile that it is not more their duty than it is their wish to oblige in playing such tunes as are called for, but at the same time they wish them to con- sider the peculiar polgnancy of Insult to men not accustomed to it.

Thus situated, they entreat a generous public so far to compas- alonate their feelings as to prevent the thoughtless and indisposed from throwing apples, stones, etc.. into the orchestra, so that while they eat the bread of industry in a free country it shall not be tinc- tured with the poison of humilia- tion."

When Thomas Bellamy, the bass, took over the management of the

and hammer, and we dropped it Belfast Theatre in 1800, he let it be on our stockinged fool.

It fell on our big, or main, toe, or, as we technically call it, our ptomaine. We suffered from gout for over a

weck.

ment, is still out of reach. No matter how vast the navy, army

"DACRYOCYSTITIS," he! of Hammer Toe. It and air force they cannot guar-

said, in a hushed voice. antee peace. They may be of

It's a disease of the eye. sufficient strength to protect the What we professional men 1937 the cost of the three de- Empire, to defeat any power or refer to as an eye-ful.

As we have have, we fence services was £278,000,000. group of powers attempting Its 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 nbout 377,000 men. Last year, template an invasion, but they as a doctor.

not certain safeguards in spite of the tremendous in-are crease in expenditure from £77,- against death and destruction |000,000 to £278,000,000, the per-which must precede the most

sonnel numbered only about brilliant victory. 350,000..

"Our

Uч,

We have also been unfortunate with our cases of beri-beri. We have had to beri maat of them. Our most Interesting experiences have been with ulcers.

known at the outset that he would stand no nonsense.

unpleasant "To prevent any

may arisc consequences which from airs being called for not ad- vertised in the bills," he said, "the pubile is informed that God Save the band at the end of the fourth the King will be performed by act of the play, St. Patrick's Day prior to the farce, and Rule Britan-- nial between the first and accord nets, and on no account will they, be played at any other period of

hath.

They BAY

that music

In fact, we were at one me "Duck" Kelly, they used to call

That was because we were SLO. to the Royal Ulcer Rifles.

They were a gland lot of patients. the evening." n quack.

One of the privates was always We became a specialist in no trying to get into the hospital be charms to soothe the savage- time. Helped by our Directory, use ho had a mash on a nuras. breast, but history seems to show we could diagnose complaints Used to come up to us every morn- that it has precisely the opposite

effect. 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; Flatulence if he was. from the Mid-Levels, and $500 acute appendicitis operation if

was from the Peak.

Meanwhile, the pace:

The world and Britain-pays of rearmament quickens rapidly.

for its stupidity in its failure rearmament program- to govern itself in suma beyond me." said Sir Thomas Inskip, calculation and all too frequently -Minister for Co-ordination of with the lives of its people.

We often thought of writing PENTER AGAINAZAJ Defence, recently, "has not at-Enough money is spent on arms

the B.M.A. Journal about some of tained anything ilke the momen-nud munitions to bring compara- the interesting eases we encountered

In Hongkong. tum it will have reaclied in tive affluence, if properly dis-

THAT SINKING FEELING eighteen montha time." Theratributed, to the world's workers

Thoro was, for instance, a case of fare now establishments which in whose name nations go ad-Ewos sent up to us by mla- This is a most myɛ-

"TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE

are still only in the early stages venturing for wider markets take one day.

terlous disease endemle to the

GELEN ANDERLEDES EN of erection or preparation, and and greater empires.

Orient.

Once it was gall-siones, But he was always trying to kidneys way

Dast un

"Goitre bluzes", we used to tell]

Jater.

We went when they embarked for India by the troopship Neuralgia.

Things have not gone well for us since they departed. Can you spare n dollar to buy some polish to brigh- ton 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?”

The roader may have noticed that having a horrible cold-I have very sensibly made other people write this article for me. I will give my fast word to a poot. George Herbert, who surely penned ди unanswerable fragment or music criticism,

"Music," he said, "helps not the toothachol"

To-day's Thought-

I CARE not who writes the laws of a country so long

-G....J. NATHAN.

as I may listen to its songs.