12 PAGES The Baily British | Wh YEAR 85. NO. 190 EC -- KINGSTON. ONTARIO. Eisic=5/ome Don't Be Discouraged. We must not be discouraged by the fact that with an the advertis and Jit and a the unwholesome boosting of per- t hearing the sonal attractiveness to induce audi ences to come and hear good music so few respond, comparatively, This {lect but still is not new. Other times and coun- | measure such as habituates the ear to tries have had similar experience. L the liberties taken." ~ Handel had to suffer such himself. It Paderewski tells us that Chopin was is said that at one concert there were in the habit of telling his pupils to so few people in the hall that he con- play freely with the right hand but to soled himself by saying, "Ah, well. let the left one act as conductor or the music will sound all the finer," | keep time. This pianist, however, and it is a fact that after the first ap- f points out that in many of Chopin's pearance of the magnificent St. Mat. compositions this rule of the hands thew's Passion music of Bach in the | must he reversed, and the left one St. Thomas Church at Leipsig, the | made to sing while the right one con- work was laid aside and not agai | ducts That she has made a deep performed for one hundred years, un- | study of the subject is said by critics til discovered and produced again by | to be very evident in her rendering of Mendelssohn, Chopin's Nocturnes, in which they But there is not much excuse now- f have Pronounced upon her playing as adays for failing to keep the lamp being of a beautifully free character. buriing, Music is cheap and plenti- -------- ful; the people themselves Acquire mu Craze for Surface Expression. sical knowledge and culture instead If you're doing any betting on popu- of depending on clerical and profes- lar songs, place you money on the sional services and dominance. We | fellow who can dig up a big idea and have all kinds of music in abundance, | express it in the fewest possible and conditions favor its practise as words That never before, and all will be well if we out by one who is in touch with the can only lead the public mind and | popular music being sung all over the taste into wholesome musical ways. | continent, and who is in a position to know what catches on with the Use of Tempo Rubato in Chopin | pubic From that it would seem usic. that a song to become an mstantane- A well known and particularly 8-1 ous hit must be built around some ed pianist, who is acknowledged to be | idea that requires no microscope to one of the finest interpreters of the unearth it Nowadays, especially in music of Chépin recently appended a wartime surface expression is far more note to the programme of a Chopin {important than fundamental idea recital which she was giving, arousing Therefore the key to popular song considerable interest and discussion | w riting is brevity. Songs. with long amongst musical people. In this mote choruses sometime succeed, but upon she points out that "tempo rubato" analyzing them it will be seen that a i.e, irregular time, with the beats | short, snappy meter runs all through, hastened or slackened for the sake of | which really expression, is the life and" soul of the brevity is carried out It ter, shown frequently that good lyrics of _ high poetic value, expressed in choice English prove failures when set to S music In fact some accept it as an The Telgmann chool of axiom that good lyrics ah poor "Music songs and inferior lyries often make x good songs Vaudeville singers want songs with. easily grasped ideas he- cause they are the only kind their an- matic art. Pupils may begin at diences will accept This is the rea- any date. Terms on application, on for the frequent success of a Engagements for concerts ac- theme using some old saying changed cepted. to conform to modesn parlance or around some historie event known to 216 F tenac Street. everyone, There "are instances that Phone 1610. playing of Chopin's music. It is said that Chopin himself made free use of itemporary critic, after composer play wrote of Plano, violin and other stringed Instruments; elocution and dra- could be recalled of song writers who began to lose their hold on the public a8 soon as they endeavored to launch out into broadened vocabularies. in mp him that "he leans about within his | | bars mor chanffany player we recol-| stibject to a presiding | means the principle of has been! their writings. © If the singers prefer | brief songs in normal times when there are a great variety of themes | to build upon, how much more is brevity demanded when there seems {only one basic theme, and that the | war, Incidentally the great bulk of the patriotic song efforts are literally buried in the shuffle, or lost in the flood, is perhaps expressing it more adequately, Whether or notethis picture of the popular taste is any credit to us is another question, But it only refers [to the purely popular song cal drawing-room song is matter, -- A Message from Jerusalem. A soldier writing from Jerusalem go Continued, a musical paper describes an organ recital given by himself in the Augus- to Victoria chapel which is part of a building known as the Kaiser's pal- ace. He says the palace is situated on a hill and is a very fine piece of modern architecture, with some very good mosaic work, but it is spoiled by the fact of large portraits of the kaiser and kaiserin of Germany being painted on the ceiling side by side with those of Christ and the apos- tles. The acoustics of the place were bad, he says, like those of all buildings in the country, as no provision is made for preventing a big echo. The organ was built by a German firm, 1s the advice handed! zn the blowing arrangement is inter- esting, the bellows being worked by two large pedals on which the blower stands, alternately, pressing them down, and holding to a hand rail to preserve his balance, Just Gossip. The best way to listen to music is to have heard it before. Kings may know very little music, but' working men today can hum Parts of a score of operas Truly, music is democratic, : We should go to concerts hear the music much to so greatly peisonal element, exaggerate the l It has been said the Marseillaise day, At the outset the musical vagance of wealthy individuals and was strictly private With the estab- lishment of opera houses it became a public amusement and a source of musical education, The origin of the 'cello was the 're- bab" used hy the Arabs. The instru- ment as we now know it. however, was first made in Italy by Amati. It was said of a renowned 'cellist that in his hands the instrument. seems al. most to plead for the gift of speech, : "Unfortunately the American hand 13 patterned on German lines, making principally for noise," says Arthur Clappe;: "We have not the refined reeds of the Belgian and French bands nor the brass for which the English are famous. In a word the Ameri- can band is only in its infancy. 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