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A certain amount of technical knowledge one must have and I know that that is anathema to many people. Music, they say, is an entetuinment. agree. That is all it need be, they go on

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FIRST of all, it is advis to say, and I disagree absolute- able not to try to take ly. Let it be that for them. in more than one large-scale They get the necessary emotion- work at a sitting. To listen al kick out of it and that is their hard and continuously for 40 reward, a pleasant and satis- minutes (average duration of a fying one. On the other hand, symphony) is as much as even a you who go in for a few simple professional listener can do ade- quntely. I would go further and suggest to anyone wishing to be- Germany has expressed ingin listening instead of hearing dignation that her mobilisation that they concentrate first of all on only one movement of a big of a million men and the sud-work, allowing themselves mere. den speeding of frontier fortifi-ly to hear the rest of it.

IN EUROPE

By Scott Goddard

News Chronicle Music Critic

HOWEVER, to get that complete thrill We

flesh and

as I say, master a few blood rebel against such profu- must, sion. Even one's emotions fail technicalities. If we are to be

you stay these concerts out, realise that most of the time you have been passively hear- ing.

ed because you haven't had time to discover what it's about. She'll probably think you're mad BUT let me return to and by to-morrow will have you who are about to spread the news that you've be-

cations should cause suspicion If we rush at the job and at- technicalities and study your main the private preserve of nit- or anxiety in other countries of tempt immediately to listen in scores before concerts get that neither you nor I are called on Europe. Germany is apparently

concert we emotional kick plus an intellec- to follow them as they wobble tently to a whole.

ND if as you leave the AND shall become exhausted. On tual kick. That is your reward, uncertainly down the primrose

concert hall angry that other powers should exhaustion follows irritation twice as pleasant, doubly satis- path, each to his own private Snip, who "does so much for Lady

distrust her. It never occurs to and the latter state is worse fying.

hell of "unadulterated enjoy.

music" and "knows all the the German mind that things than the first.

intelligent about the vexed ment." It would be unkind of her authority has done in the In any case most concerts are question of Toscanini's tempi (a us to remind them that they artists, my dear," demands of past may be to blame for this too long and nearly all operas sixpenny taxtbook will explain might usefully expend at any you whether it was not all "too as much thought on the divinely thrilling," tell her that that is, for intelligent listening, what tempo is) we had better rate idiosyncrasy, this fear psycho-One act alone of a Wagner opera discover what "andante" means consumption of that insidious, you only really listened to one sis, whenever her army com- can last two mortal hours. How

drug called music as they do on piece and so far you're not thrill- food and drink. mences doing anything out of is it possible to keep going for the ordinary. Surely there is lapsing into passive, inattentive so long at a stretch without re-

something significant in the hearing? Human fact that all Europe shudders when German soldiers march on to register in time. How much and how it differs from "allegro" do music and those who write it come a highbrow. mysterious manoeuvres. It may more

of listening in- that peculiarly delicate or what a clarinet can do that the courtesy be accident and it may be design organism, the human brain? neither a trumpet nor a violin telligently. You have your op- But why worry? The mean- nor the human voice can do. portunity to hand. It happens ing of "andante" is to remain that Germany should have Having, as I hope, persuaded

to be a difficult test, but I mten- for ever hidden from her and deliberately advertised these you to take music in decent Such things are simple and tion it because it is significant therefore she, unlike you, will

rather for the life of me doses--Imperial Pints proposed war games, on so vast than Jerobeams, the "Siegfried anything very degrading in put- a scale, at a time when fear Idyll" rather than "Siegfried" ting oneself in possession of The sixteenth annual festival ing among the notes of the would take root and flourish-here is my second suggestion: these facts. Yet I know many of the International Society for "Eroica" Symphony or

Make as much music as you can otherwise estimable people who Contemporary Music is about to quintet in "Meistersinger." She, for yourself. By yourself, if you get in a cold fury whenever it is be held in London. Seven days Just to arrange the facts and CAN play

instrument. suggested that the technicalities of modern music will be hard a climber who uses music as a try to fit them into patterns is Otherwise for yourself, your of listening might profitably be work for all concerned. I ad- means for social advancement,

then being mechanical. acquired.

vise again small doses of listen will always be a hearer (and a enough to cause alert diploma- aids

ing. If, in a spirit of kindliness poor one at that) while you are Your problem as to how much tists to look fearfully over their

For them (though they would wits and hedonists. Well, now to become a listener. Good you burden yourself with at one

put it otherwise) music is to re- towards composers of to-day, luck to you. shoulders to assure themselves that no unpleasant surprise is

without much cultivation,

some

trespassers are warmed to ex-

I fail to see and important.

is well aware that that is the GRIN AND BEAR IT sort of thing calculated to dis-

than

creeping up on them. Germany pect instant death. Germany has called reservists to the colours and this week will have an army of a million fighting treas the French, and might men to play with; she has even cause a panic. Czecho- warned of the necessity of Slovakia, too, must jump commandeering private proper-to- her Kuns 419 Germany ty, foodstuffs, horses, carts, mobilises. Simultaneously, there. automobiles, trucks; she has is a feeling of apprehension | informed conscripts that they over the Russo-Japanese quar- will not be released from service rel. And, possibly того at the date anticipated; she has significant

any thing forbidden men under 65 years of else, Britain and Italy are again age to leave the country; she reported to be at loggerheads has' commenced registration of over the Spanish intervention citizens for special duties in problem. Would it be unfair, in some new form of mobilisation. view of the close co-operation presumably in connection with previously 'demonstrated by anti-air raid defence or other Italy, and Germany, and to A war work; she has made rules lesser extent, by Italy, Germany for doctors and nurses so that and Japan, to suggest that the authorities will always know] Germany's present little net is where they are to be found in likely to cause Britain to soften the event of emergency. In her tone in dealing with Italy's addition to these things, which alleged further violations of the aro reasonable enough in view non-intervention agreement and of the German's thoroughness to distract France's attention frontier in matters military, and even in from the Pyrenees experiment, there is the second which she has threatened to re- disturbing factor of speeded open? And might not this work on frontier fortifications. disturbing German move keep Thousands of workmen are con- Russia interested in something| centrated in the country facing other than the Far East dispute the French border, working with friends of the Reich? It secretly on fortifications where is just possible.

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Managua (Nicaragua), Aug. 15. It is reliably learned that a large number of Army leaders and civilians have been arrested in San Salvador, capital of Salvador, Republic, on charges of threatening a revolution against the Presidential succession. The Ministry of the Interior Iti

Ini San Salvador categorically denied the Nicaraguan reports, and states that the country is quiet and tranquil. It also dentes that any newspaper has been closed or any editor deported. The latter dental was in connection with reports, also emanating in Nicaragua, that the newspaper Diario de Hou, which is the largest publication In Central Americo, was closed by the Governinent and that the editor, Senor Napoleon Altamirano, had been deported for refusing to publish n Government editorial favouring the re-election of General Martinez as Governor. Governor Martinez's term expires in March, Political news- from Salvador is strictly censored. Nevertheless, reports are still Altering. through to Nleurngun that the gaols are crowded with political prisoners.. -United Press..

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