JAZZ CHALLENGED.
Modernist musical innovators may not he so modern after all tin- Parisian public is Iji-i;i 11it to learn. 1 hanks to ihe Society of Ancient Musical lii.-truuients ami kindred organisations. One of the most advanced of modernist conceptions produced a few weeks ago was symphony for percussion instruments written by a young Russian. ' It caused a storm of discussion. Then the (Society of Ancient Musical Instruments played a similar piece, a quartet for tuned drums. But it was written more than .'!00 years ago by a classicist named Pliilidor. The three societies in Paris organised to stimulate an interest in old music report an enormous success this year, due perhaps to a reaction after a surfeit of jazz. Works of Orlando Gibbons the sixteenth century English composer; Handel, Bach. Scluitz and Palestrina have been played to large audiences and even advanced critics them "favourable mention.'
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 8 (Supplement)
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