PROPOSED CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13332, 26 January 1909, Page 9

PROPOSED CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC.

-jTgCI-SED BY PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS.

(«_-- ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, January 25. ins di_ci i__ion arose at to- _• ,_ fitting ot the couieronco oi mu_illns re_ar a » n e the prop o *** l ConsC!lT ''- wjum «» Mumc, concerning which there has been eonsiderabio argument j_tt_, J-Jerr i-ii-cuoeig (ot tnn.t-Attr-h) mot-ed:— "'-"at in the opinion _f tHis couferenco the e_ta-.__i_ient ol c Mte^ u t_iit__<--d Co__-i'vuu>riuui ol Mas., in -*<_w -.<-aia_.-t is pvei_atui_ ___ M id tuat attcr t_o ro__.it oi tiio tioiio Cou-u-itceo tiud ___._. pi-v_enieu to __. tuiver.ity _-.ua te it wa_ n_.u----l *j yjat _uu_.ici-.-is _i_j_i_ as* i_«__iI ___» wbeuier tne __i_oi__ii__nt _oi a _____vato_ium woui_ cany wun it aU .___«»- urotnotens ot tue sellout, hud t__en su_n o ** re l ' iaco * J *-'- L> *'° *- ~c L___h_c ->u<*_ * a iu*t»-u_., w_.u_ _-_e-r£ui_r_er-ap3 a ch.-~.-u lew, would not i Mucin tbo taae-fH. I- attain tho latter ' !_!_it was more desira.ie, should tue fi_werj__-_u- sea its way **> *-*° »«■«* _T_«* for the cause of music, to devote S__7_i_oney available to tue establi_n£ent of up-to-dato p__lL__ioual or____tras, one tor each island. -"bore «ro many things which would tend __.nullity the work of a c_>i__>rvatori- „ m New Zealand hud couiparau. _ly __lv a »C_nty ana scattered papulation. The Dominion w*s isolated trom any treat art con-roe. and ho was afraid STbulk of tha people were not musically inchned. Alter touching on tbe oueititm of finance, tbe speaker went ' _n to remark that a co__ervatoi_um _ouki beneut only "*>"*y *'.>*' out-J<-_ ___» who secured an appointment on Sostaff. and it would be a very heavy ___etms without tbe slightest possible ..Vantage to the people of New Zealand Tnero was a want of good music I _V_rt_* peopk* DUt that want would i ha t.o_»T-d only by plenty of fine orchestral pcrforaiancca and by a first- _*_» . _•» company. The former was i within the region of possibility, while ' the latter would remain for many years _ so__-_n« to be wished for. The advocate, o. the con_ervatorium, unable to refute the arguments advanced against ifc. raised tbe cry tnat the opponents ot it were actuated by sollisb motives. The teachers bad the interests and welfare of music st heart just as much* as the advocates ot _m» oon_er. atorinm. though they were mow* sincere and Item noisy about the matter. Men who knew tbe musical conditions and work- ' ings ill this country and European countries were more competent to form a correct idea bow to solve the problem than men who had never come under tbe influence of musical life in Europe. Tbe president (Mr W. H. "Webbe, of Auckland) remarked that he had visited several oonservutoria in Europe, and found tbat it bad taken several generations to bring them into existence. It had taken over fifty years to get the Royal Academy of Music . managed with any degree of success, -and London had a population of seven ,or eight millions. To establish a conS Mrratorium they wanted students prac- £ .____• independent of all work outside «|»-Bic. The time was not yet ripe for ._|ib» establishment of anything of tbe irptind ia New Zealand. It wonld be "_J_r_stefnl extravagance on tho part of " ihe Government to import professors 'j. from tbo Old Country without having f tho material to work upon. - The motion was carried with only , .cue dissentient (a lady), and it was atcreod thnt a copy of" ths resolution • would be forwarded to th© University Senate.