MUSIC WEEK.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 19 September 1930, Page 15

MUSIC WEEK.

SUCCESS IN SYDNEY. (F2OM OUR OWH CORBESPOXDKNT.) SYDNEY, September 11. Sydney has been indulging in a Music Week. As with Health Week, Eat More Fruit Week, Drink More Milk Week, and all the other weeks, it excited quite a lot of attention, and its promoters say it was a great success No one will mind as long as it does not produce a fresh crop of suburban saxophonists, or encourage fond parents to believe that, in their infant prodigies, they have potential Pnganinis or Paderewskis, or budding composers with .all the spiritual fervour of Palestrma. One can hardly walk two yards in Sydney now without •meeting out-of-work musicians and being accosted by their collectors. If the week inspires people with the idaa that there is money in music, thoy only want to look round Sydney. The fostering on broad lines of a love of good music, however, is a good idea. Of the church folk the Methodists notably swung themselves enthusiastically beliind Music Week. This is not surprising, for it is as what might be termed a singing church that Methodism is noted. It is the power of song, rather than the hortative influence of its speakers, that attracts such big crowds in Sydney every Sunday to the Lyceum Hall. Every good Methodist knows that John Wesley's conversion was in part attributable to music, and his fervent evangelical ministry in no small measure to the hymns of gifted brother Charles. So there are possibilities in Music Week. It might inspire someone to set Sydney's troubles* to good, inspiriting, crashing music, and 6hus feed the flames of economic revival, just as music has fed the fire pf spiritual fervour.' I