MUSIC IN SCHOOLS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18551, 28 November 1925, Page 3

MUSIC IN SCHOOLS.

INTRODUCTION OF PHONOGRAPH. (IXOU OTTB OTO COKSXSEFOKDBBT.) SYDNBT, November 19. The introduction in the echools of the phonograph, for fostering musical appreciation, is finding strong advocacy in Sydney. Those interested in musical education view with some disquiet the sway which the modern jaza and listening-in now hold on the youthful minds, and they believe that these influences can be most effectively met, and the aesthetic sense best developed in the school, by the use of the phonograph, as is being done in the Old Country, in order that even the poorest child can be brought under the influence of great masters, and in personal contact with the musical achievements of all countries, and indeed of the last few centuries. The decision of the authorities in Leeds, to equip its schools with phonographs, is cited as an example of what might be done in this country, in order to foster musical culture. The State Gonservatorium in New South Wales is now doing much to encourage the aesthetic development* of ~"tfie ehild -ni this direction, but this work is, at present at all events, necessarily restricted. While' wireless is aIT> the craze, the phonograph has not, by any means, gone out of fashion in Sydney. In fact, there are as many phonograph shops as ever.