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course, no short cut, but certain aiming at. ways are better than others. As scusoned listener I might be able to put you in what I imagine is a right direction.

composer was

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

I

By Scott Goddard

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

FIRST of all, it is advise 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- quately. I would go further and suggest to anyone wishing to be- Germany has expressed in-gin listening instead of hearing dignation that her mobilisation on only one movement of a big that they concentrate first of all

of a million men and the sud- work, allowing themselves merc

News Chronicle Music Critic den speeding of frontier fortifi-ly to hear the rest of it.

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

tently to a whole

emotional kick plus an intellec- to follow them as they wobble Europe. Germany is apparently shall become

exhausted. On tual kick,

That is your reward, uncertainly down the primrose 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 distrust her. It never occurs to and the latter state

is worse fying.

hell of "unadulterated enjoy music" and "knows all the than the first.

It would be unkind of the German mind that things

intelligent about the vexed ment." her authority has done in the too long and nearly all operas- sixpenny taxtbook will explain might usefully expend at any you whether it was not all "too

In any case most concerts are question of Toscanini's tempi (a us to remind them that that is, for intelligent listening, what tempo is) we had better rate as much thought on the divinely thrilling," tell her that One act alone of a Wagner opera discover what "andante" means consumption of that insidious you only really listened to one drug called music as they do on piece and so far you're not thrill- food and drink,

com-

past may be to blame for this idiosyncrasy, this fear psycho- sis, whenever her army mences doing anything out of the ordinary. Surely there is something significant

in

the

concert we

can last two mortal hours. How

is it possible to keep going for so long ut a stretch without re-

lapsing into passive, inattentive HOWEVER, to get that

flesh

and

complete

hearing? Human

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

ing.

☆

AN

ND if as you leave the

concert hall Lady

they artista, my dear," demands of

BUT let me return

you who are about to

to

ed because you haven't had time

to discover what it's about.. She'll probably think you're mad and by to-morrow will have spread the news that you've be- to register in time. How much and how it differs from "allegro" de music and those who write it come a highbrow. more that peculiarly delicate or what a clarinet can do that the courtesy of listening in- organism, the human brain? neither a trumpet nor a violin telligently. You have your op- But why worry? The mean- portunity to hand. It happens ing of "andante" is to remain Ilaving, as I hope, persuaded

to be a difficult test, but I men- for ever hidden from her and you to take music in decent Such things are simple and tion it because it is significant therefore she, unlike you, will doses-Imperial Pints rather for the life of me I fail to see and important. than Jeroboams, the "Siegfried anything very degrading in put- Idyll" rather than "Siegfried" ting oneself in possession of time when fear here is my second suggestion: these facts. Yet I know many of the International Society for "Eroica" would take root and flourish without much cultivation.

fact that all Europe shudders when German soldiers march on mysterious manoeuvres. It may be accident and it may be design that Germany should have deliberately advertised these proposed war games, on so vast

scale, at a

IL

some

nor the human voice can do.

never chance on the secret lurk- The sixteenth annual festival ing among the notes of the Symphony or the

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

CAR play

instrument. suggested that the technicalities of modern music will be hard a climber who uses music as a Otherwise fry to fit them into patterns is aids then

for yourself,

your of listening might profitably be work for all concerned. I ad- means for social advancement, being mechanical, acquired,

vise again small doses of listen- will always be a hearer (and a enough to cause alert diploma- Your problem as to how much

ing. If, in a spirit of kindliness poor one at that), while you are tists to look fearfully over their you burden yourself with at one put it otherwise) music is to re- towards composers

wits and hedonists. Well, now to become a listener. Good

of to-day, luck to you.

shoulders to assure themselves

that no unpleasant surprise is trespassers are warned to ex- creeping up on them. Germany pect instant death. Germany

than

For them (though they would

has called reservists to the is well aware that that is the GRIN AND BEAR IT colours and this week will have sort of thing calculated to dis- an army of a million fighting tress the French, and might| men to play with; she has even cause a panic. Czecho-1 warned of the necessity of Slovakia, too, must jump commandeering private proper- to her guns K Germany ty, foodstufTa, 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 more at the date anticipated; she has significant

any thing forbidden men under 65 years of cise, 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 bo unfair, in some new form of mobilisation, view of the close co-operation presumably in connection with previously démonstrated by anti-air raid defence or other Italy and Germany, and to at 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 act 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 are reasonable enough in view non-intervention agreement and of the German's thoroughness to distract France's attention in matters military, and even in from the Pyrenees - frontier experiment, there is the second which she has threatened to re- this disturbing factor of speeded open? And might not 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 i the French border, working with friends of the Reich? It socretly on fortifications where] is just possible.

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Mr. Hodgson hal arranged service specially for lovers.

Other points he made were:--

Marringe not a handicap;

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Women must leam that man is a queer creature:

Without love, marriage Is hell;

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