TOO MUCH MUSIC.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 206, 1 September 1933, Page 12

TOO MUCH MUSIC.

ADDRESS ON BROADCASTING. COMPOSER'S DIFFICULTY. "Before leaving London I was asked by the Performing Rights Association, which collects royalties on behalf of British producers, to convey good feelings toward New Zealand," said Dr. Cyril Jenkins in an address to the New Zealand Club in Wellington, states the "Dominion." The income of the composer, he said, had shrunk considerably in the last five years, and particularly in the last two years, and it was only fair that he should gain the reward of his labours.

Speaking of broadcasting, Dr. Jenkins urged that it should be directed by someone with an imaginative mind and musical knowledge. He was surprised that a greater tise was not made of the wealth of literature available from the different countries. It was ignorance in this channel which caused so much disappointment to listeners-in. Dr. Jenkins thought the world was suffering from too much music to-day, and that was what the composers were up against at the moment. In the old days something which became popular had a certain life, bringing in royalties commensurate with the labour. Now the broadcasting stations pumped the same thing on to the air day after day. time after time, with the result that it was repeated ad nauseam. At the same time broadcasting had come to stay, and was going to help to develop musical und other arts, provided it was properly directed. He hoped the people of New Zealand would make every effort to see that the energies of the authorities were developed into a channel which would make this medium serve its purpose in the proper i