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neh of mn ursday, February 23, 1950 » THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Page 3 Church academical atmosphere of Rome, |with the window curtains and L Su % SUCCessfy J MUSIC ALBUM but Italy stirred this romantic |the candles on the tables, many night lag BY IRVEN FELL i i i EE n e (0) man S or and impressionable youth, Ber-|of which were extinguished. The. oo HECTOR BERLIOZ (1803-1369) 10% It Was here that he wrote |thunder roared and the lighten- now These People ? Call Your Committee The high school re-union com- ittee, still busy with plans, met in. | Kendall Family Holds Quiet Celebration To Mark Dad's Birthday At eighty-three most men have retired from active life. Not so 25 boys to McKenna, Douglas Watson, Phyllis Langman, Dor- Gack Thomas, Reid Townsley, with James R. Kendall, who, at Armstrong, Catherine | three years past the four-score Annie Hughes, George | mark, still goes about his duties oppin. 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Tsephone vies, employees, shareholders -- everyone has 1 interest in a service that means so much to the ovolnao) oF oo many meso Hop; @ ZR 7 COMPANY OF CANADA @ THE BELL TELEPHONE Owned and operated by Canadians for Canadians C.B.C. Executive Calls Canadian Networks 'Happy Radio Medium' The February meeting of the University Women's Club was held at the home of Mrs. Blair Ferguson with the president Mrs. Fred Davies presiding. The speaker of the evening Mrs. M. McEnaney of the C.B.C. Talks and Public Affairs Dept., was in- troduced by Mrs, J. Ford. Mrs, McEnaney in her enlight- ening talk on the CB.C. from its earliest beginnings to the present time provided sound answers for practically every criticism of a publicly owned stationed. She pointed out that those people liv- ing close to large cities often fail- ed to appreciate the fact that prior to the CB.C. the remote parts of Canada rarely if ever heard a decent program, and we faced the real danger of losing our national unity. "To-day with our private and publicly owned stations we are the happy medium between Great Britain and United States. In the latter country," she continued," Lee De Forest, the father of ra- dio, complained bitterly that his invention had been debased by worthless programs, and as a re- sult the RF.C. investigated and arrived at the somewhat startling conclusion that American radio programs were designed to ap- peal to a 13-year-old intelligence, the sole aim of the stations being to please the buyers of their wares. The same criticism," she said, "can no longer be aimed at Canada, because whereas before the advent of the C.B.C. 95% of our programs came from the US. to-day 85% of them originate in Canada. 'I believe the Massey Re- port will bear me out when I sa the CB.C. is the greatest force for national culture in this coun- try, Why then do we have com- mercial programs? Your pocket- book is the answer. Without them the license fee would be no less than $10.00. Money is also the reason that we have not yet in- troduced television. Remember, television is still in its infancy, and the CB.C. is hesitant to spend a great deal of money for some- thing that may be obsolete before long. The present television may soon be in a class with crystal sets and earphones." Mrs. McEnaney went on to ex- plain how the CB.C., though res- ponsible to a parliamentary committee, is . managed by a board of governors, and there was no danger of it being used as in Russia as a basis for '|ideas and while he wrote a can- Back in November, Sir Thomas Beecham, the famous English conductor-composer, was in Mon- treal to conduct Berlioz' Re- quiem, and as usual gave an in- terview to the newspapers. He said several things, amongst them being, "that Berlioz was the most original mind that had appeared as yet on the musical scene. He had no and though the well known "Romain Carni- val)' a tone picture of Rome in carnival time. "Symphonic Fantastique." Even- tually he married her, but they were very unhappy and after a while separated. There were re- he had some imitators, he had no followers, The real founder of the orchestra, Berlioz was its greatest master." On the strength of this state- ment I thought I would look for something on the life and moti- vating power of this musical giant, especially when one never hears of him in the same way as Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Bach, Wagner, Liszt and others. In the first place, it appears that Berlioz was a revolutionist in his ideas, and his fame prob- ably hangs on the fact that he wrote for orchestration, not as it was then, but as he foresaw it. One writer says that it is impos- sible to understand the music of today without him. He was the son of a doctor, born in a small town just outside of Paris, France. His father wanted Hector to follow in his footsteps and be a doctor, but here Is where the first revolutionary tendency came to the fore. True, he did go to medical school, but he spent his time studying musical scores rather than medicine. It was not very long hbefore there was a de- finite breach between father and son, but the son stuck to his mus- ic, which resulted in his being thrown out on his own resources. In order to make énds meet, in- deed to live at all, he sang in a chorus at ore of the theatres of Paris. He is described as tall, of a spare but powerful frame, red- Y haired, eagle-eyed, defiant of i of | restlessness, and more separations ing flashed as if Nature had de- termined to greet the old hero with her grandest music." Ber- Berlioz met a Miss Smithson, |lioz died a few days after this a Shakespearian actress with [banquet in 1869. whom he fell madly in love. It Winner of the Week was for her that he wrote the If J. C. Campbell, 8th Line, will call at Lofquist's Record Bar he will be presented with a Red Seal Record with the compli- ments of the Journal. which did nothing to help him to settle down and compose, the result being poverty. For his sym- phony "Childe Harold" he received a cheque for 20,000 francs through the famous violinst, Pag- anini. It was never thought that Paganini gave the money, but the present was made by someone else who did not want to be known. Berlioz went to Hungary on an orchestral tour, leaving his wife at home in France, While in Bu- dapest it was suggested that he write a march based on a Hung- arian tune. He did, and in it his individualism came to the fore. Usually such marches started out with a blare of noise, but not Berlioz's march. It started soft- ly, gradually working itself up in volume and intensity of feeling. His audience seemed to come along with him in his interpre- tation and at the close, it is said that it nearly went mad. "A strange, restless movement was amongst them," says Berlioz in his memoirs. Berlioz was also a music critic and wrote for sev- eral newspapers of the day. He never hesitated to be ruthless in his criticisms of the money- changes in the temple of art. His first wife died and he married again, but this marriage was not any more successful than his first. She died too, and his only son Louis, by his first wife also died. Louis was a sea captain and died in a foreign port. grandeur, daring and passion- the commonplace conflict He studied with LeSueur, said to be the only teacher who was not antagonistic towards him. Several of the musical giants of the day scoffed at him and his and born for tata, several overtures and an opera in his earlier years in an at- tempt at fame, it was a hard long road before he actually claimed attention, In those days the great honor for a budding musician was to attain the Prix de Rome, and at one time he was termed unfit to even compete for it. He did reach that goal later with his cantata "Sardanapale." This was his fourth attempt. He did not care very much for the Yet programs directly from Lake Success and others on human re- lations were especially planned to make Canadians aware of what was happening in the world of to-day so that they might be bet- ter prepared to cope with the world of to-morrow. Mrs. R. G. Young moved a vote of thanks to the speaker. Weddings = HOLMAN--BULL Appleby College Chapel was the scene of a charming wedding Saturday afternoon, when Mary Minette, daughter of Col. and Mrs. R. O. Bull, Oakville, was united in marriage to Nicholas Paul Trevenan Holman, son of Mr. and Mrs. P, M. Holman, '"Penwarne," near Falmouth, Cornwall, England. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. J. A. M. Bell, and J. A. D. Magee played the wedding music, 'The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, wore a gown of Brussels lace over cream satin. Her train-length veil was held by a coronet of seed pearls, and she carried a 'cascade bou- quet of cream roses. The matron of honor, Mrs. J. J. E. Mahoney of Vancouver, sister of the bride, was gowned in deep turquoise faille taffeta, and carried a cas- cade of mixed flowers that mat- ched her coronet. Elizabeth and Geraldine Bull, of Oakville, cou- sins of the bride, were flower girls. They wore Swiss embroid- ered muslin frocks in Kate Green- away style over soft pink, and carried nosegays shading from cream to pink. Cameron Hillmer was groomsman, and ushers were Jack Cantelon, Pat Abbott and F. S, Bull After the ceremony a reception was held at the Oakville Club. The bride and groom left for a visit to the Laurentians before sailing on the Queen Elizabeth for Eng- land. They will make their home ate feeling in this man's works. It seems to portray, quite easily, the type of a man he was. I like the closing description in Olin Downe's article on Berlioz. 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