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MORE MUSIC

FOR more than 50 years

music has been my mas- ter and my life. Therefore if I were Musical Dictator I should at least bring to the job a clear understanding of the world of music and its

To make sure your automobile will problems. And there are

GO is very important.

BUT

plenty of problems.

Yet I should not need to

To make sure it will STOP is even consider long before making my

more important.

To have dependable brakes

first: decree.

It 10

• USC HY-

should be addressed,

The famous misician's jubilee as a conductor will be cele- brated in the autumn by a concert at the Royal Albert Hall.

know you will STOP regardless of marked "Urgont and Overdue," hall was designed without the weather conditions... KOMA

to the Universities of Oxford slightest consideration for music WHIZ NON-EVAPORATING

and Cambridge, neither of which and has proved unsuited to the DRAULIC BRAKE FLUI

has ever decided that its duty festival?

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That is not an isolated case. clamoured for the establishment I have a fine orchestra of keen HY-of B permanent professional amateurs in Hull. Only tro-

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Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, JULY 11, 1938.

THIS WEALTHY WORLD

mendous enthusiasm keeps it That is a shameful state of going, for the city cares so little affairs, and has amazed many a about it that it will not even give distinguished foreign musician it a place in which to rehearse. who has attended at either My drummer there is a school- university to receive an master. I have met him on a honorary degree in music. My rehearsal' evening trundling his decree would require it to be set drums in a wheelbarrow, for right.

there is no place where he can leave them. Could keenness bel

civic indifference greater, or more cynical?

If that seems a trifling reform to come so early on a dictator's list, let me point out that it is important because symptom of what may be called

it

A

the "official" attitude to music in England.

year.

when

some to

My next decree should require

fair play for church organiata. It is impossible to exaggerate our debt to these musicians.

Wherever there is a church there is an organist, and more often than not he is the who organises and conducts the local choir, orchestra and opera society, Yet even to-day, the church organist is treated as a nonentity.

man

My decree should

Brings Happiness

SCHOOLS should come

GRIN AND BEAR IT

COLLEGE

HAPLONAS

By Lichty

"Cop), 1938 by United Feature Kyusteate, Ene. "Psst-put away that check for the endowment fund until AFTER. you get the honorary doprec!"

The Last of the

Venicc.

neglected park of a de-

plain lies the entrance to what the few who know of its exist- ence believe to be the last of the secret shrines of the Knights Templars.

Old Gods

By

G. WARD PRice

For 120 years, in the dim light of the innermost of its artificial caverns, has stood a twenty-feet-high figure of Baphomet, the 'strange double- sexed god worshipped by initiates of! that famous Order.

to another cave, on whose wall is a- sup- large marble bas-relief depleting the When the Templars were

of place there.

I

was doubtless

1

Ordeal by Fire? Treful. It might well

THE carving is crude but

Music is the only art that is treated here as anybody's job,

where to flourish free brilliant impresario likes court bankruptcy or a wealthy private patron cares to lavish on it his wealth: equally free to languish and die if private enterprise cannot keep it alive,

In the official life of the Next I should instruct all towns and cities with popula- church he is merely the parson's servant. Even tions of 100,000 or more to get unrecognised Mr. H. B. Butler has just

These the Enabling Act of 1924, which up civic orchestras.

the or- on published the last of the Annual orchestras would give Promen- recognised the rights of the Reports of the International ludo concerts six times a week verger, conferred

gunist and choirmaster no rights TN a hidden hollow of the!

IN throughout the entire year. Labour Organisation for which

At least one in ten of these whatever. he will be responsible, for he is concerts should include a work make him the parson's partner sorted villa on the Venetian leaving Geneva before the end for choir and orchestra: and so in the service of God.

that our I should make sure of this year to take up his new magnificent choirs were rescued appointment at Oxford. These from the slough into which some

The brond.

next on my list. Annual Reports have always of them slipped

trouble with music in schools is been cagerly looked forward to casting begun. by internationalists and econo- Probably you are burning to that it is still regarded as an That is would "extra" or a "frill." mists not only because they con- tell me that my decree

about 500 sheer unenlightened nonsense,

It is not obvious that some tain the history of the IL.O. mean setting up during the past year, but even orchestras giving nightly con-

certs. Quite so; and why not? measure of understanding of more perhaps because of their Is it too much to assign to music music would add to the bright-pressed six centuries ago by Pope rite of "baptism" which used to take

and happiness of almost Clement V. and King Phillip invaluable and impartial survey about one eighth of the enter- nesa

life? Regarded France, and many hundreds of them burnt at the stake on charges of of economic and industrial con-prise and facilities that the everybody's

heresy and Богсету, their Grand simply as a study, music is as ditions prevailing throughout cinema enjoys?

Master, Jacques de Molay, is said to But people don't want all good an intellectual discipline as the world. The Report for 1937

any subject in the school cur- have found means before his execu

were destroyed ritual to others. These founded four original chapels of the Templars that is no exception to the rule. To these concerts, you object.

in the fourteenth How do you know that? No- riculum: considered as a cultural tion to pass on the secrets of their panel brought from one of the three naked century. It shows many the chief points of interest body was clamouring for sum- asset, it holds a place second to lodges at Naples, Edinburgh, Stock-cent

holm, and Paris--from which the figures, two of which are pouring a Chater Road. may well lie in such assertions, mer evening concerts in London none.

supported by facts and figures when Robert Newman opened Why, then, does music occupy worship of Baphomet continued to be flood of water over the head of an- other who lies stretched across an propagated.

oltar. Bat-Haunted as that "the prosperity of 1929 the Queen's Hall and started the so modest a place in the minds Yet there of educationists? And, believe

There is a corresponding panel in has been regained and surpass Proms 48 years ago.

through the next grotto, which was evidently the Southern lodge at the scene either of sacrifice or ordeal ed" and that "on the surface is no doubt about these concerts me, it does.

being wanted now, nor has there I know you can point to official there is ground for satisfaction been any doubt for many a reports to show that the Board Naples that the Italian proprietor by fire.

of the now forlorn estate where A hollow altar stands there, bear- of Education smiles on music, Baphomet still in the present state of employ.

stands became, at Ing signs of having been used as a ment if the world be taken as

People did not demand but I, and every other choir con- the beginning of the last century, an furnace, and the carving above it of the powerful fraternity depicts one of the three figures lying whole". But Mr. Butler is cinemas or broadcasting, or any- ductor, can tell you that the which once had over 1,000 branches across a similar altar with dames under no illusions. "Should an- thing but bare necessities, until great mass of young folk emerge in Europe and whose castles in Palca- rising on either side of him.

So with from the schools without being time, bigger than the Tower of Lon-

The narrow passage leading on to other general war break out", he they were provided.

the latent demand able to sing at sight a simple don, still stand to-day.

the heart of the shrine is brightened declares, "a total collapse is concerts,

To most people the magic of at its next turn by a gap in the roof modern setence has made the ethut lels in the sun. This is said to practically certain" and since exists everywhere as it existed melodic line.

in London.

Our schools are still turning chantments of the Middle Ages seem

symbolise the enlightenment of the "public money, mostly borrowed,

After five years or orchestras out people who are musically ridiculous, but there places neophyte who, after passing through is being poured out without in every centre with a popula- illiterate. They should hear where their memory still lingers. the ceremonies of baptism and ordenl can imagine no more suitable ож sacrifice, is ready to enter the stint for armament purposes tion of 100,000, no body would from the Musical Dictator!

surroundings for the invocation of

la presence of the idol. .. and export trade is being doubt the demand.

the powers of evil than the cold, The path then slopes steeply down We have not got the Encourage Composers sacrificed to the needs of home

Jant-haunted darkness of the under-

again to below the surface of the defence" "the, seeds are being concert-halls for such a scheme?

PERHAPS a dictator ought ground tempit into which one passed ground. One comes upon a cave of Well, let's build them.

I pro- sown for unemployment in the test. that it is high time the will on composers, although it

Irregular sides, llluminated only by not to seek to impose his sequestered Venetian plain outside.

The ent

entrance lies through a large an unseen opening in its root. But. future". There is an almost community realised its duty to would

as the eye grows used to the shadows, appear that

likeness to a vault 15 modern cave,

ancient memorial the monstrous figure of Baphomet pathetic reference to the sort of give music decent facilities, Russia doca not share that increased by the

slabs of Knights of the

Temple, stands out, rising to the roof from world there might be, if the

In a Wheelbarrow view. Yet I might presume to brought here from their original a shallow pit in the centre of the League of Nations ideal of last-

submit & few suggestions for the burial-grounds. The walls are hung

It has the form of a powerfully with armour, helmets, and weapons, built mast with a thick black beard, COULD tell you dozens consideration of composera. ing Peace and co-operation, were

all of keen musical enter-

caten away with rust, Is it wise, I should disk, to be not being discarded everywhere in favour of Power Politics. prises that have died for want quite so exacting in your de- Double-Handed Sword for the deity was supposed to com- mands? The modern composer |

THIS, however, is but the bine both male and female, qualities. The head wears a triple-pointed "No one could doubt", he writes, of a home.

Do you realise, for instance, is too apt to write music that

vestibule of the strange "that, if by some magle formula that Sheffield's beautiful civic demands a colossal orchestra there at the end of the cave a one hand a reproduction of letreen tabernacle of a forgotten, god. In crown. The uplifted arms hold, inn.

in the other, of the moon. peace were suddenly guaranteed

and prodigni rehearsal if it is to norrow gap leads to a flight of steps the straddling legs lies a skull, and for the next ten years, there

bo performed.

which open on to a deep circular at the feet of the idol is a small. would be such an acceleration of this competition continue with- Or he will write music for chamber, dimly lighted by a round marble altar.

An uncanny effect of this under- the world's economic rhythm as out a lowering of conditions in choirs that treats voices unskil- hold in its conical roof 30ft, above

the earthen floor.

ground Image, which for a hundred would outstrip all previous re- the older manufacturing coun-fully and unkindly, forgetting

Against the well opposite the years and more has stood here await- amateurs entrance a lofty seat in white marble ing secret worship, is the truns- cords". Among a number of tries? Is it not good that im-that choristers are

rises like a bishop's throne, in front parency of the eyes. These tire so other facts and tendencies that poverished natives in Asin and and want, to enjoy themselves.

And is not too much modern of which, on a narrow altar, les amade that as you move about the are recorded it may be that the Africa should be able to buy music a bit stiff for listeners scaly with a hindred years of rusting. shines through them, giving the

huge

double-handed sword, red and cave the light froin above suddenly most significant is the increas-cheap stuff from Japan in view also?

was here that he would be startling impression that the stiffly ing industrial activity of Asiatic of the fact that they would not These things would be men- inillates of the Order of the Temple standing figure has shot a swift. countries. This is true of China, in any case purchase the more tioned by way of discovering took their first outh of secrecy before glance in one's direction.

Icurn the Inner India; Java, etc. but is most expensive merchandisc of whether composers are capable passing on to

Peculiar Rites Dark and dungeon-like as the first marked in the caso of Japan. Europe or the U.S.A.-simply of taking a hint.

LAST scene of all in this Her share of world-trade is not because they could not afford to My hinta should be accom- vault is, what lies boyand is still more cramped, for the worshippers yet very considerable-only 3.67 do so? Obviously there is an panied by a promise: that any of Baphomet were admitted to the pilars is the empty space benind the per cent. In 1936-but, thanks intricate problem here of good worthy musle they wrote should further rites only one or two at a figure of the god, where his devotees, with magle symbols and words of to very low labour costs, she is will and wisdom, and the mathost be performed not once only but umeted to and the way out of power, ure supposed to have tried

niany times. Believe me, it is is able to produce goods for export of its solution is best given in performances that make com- the "Chapel of the Sward." The to call up the demons of the abyss

harrów door leading to the inner It was in the year, of the famine" at prices far below those of her Mr. Butler's own words: "It is posers, and it is impossible for a part of the temple is hidden behind 1910 that this underground competitors in the West Two a problem to be orked out neglected composer to achieve screen, of artificial rocke. It leads shrine, according to local tradition, amatong are raised How c

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