Music of the People
Some of his “masters on the City Council” talked the most appalling nonsense about jazz, for jazz today; was the music of the people, said Mr Eric Westbrook, director of the Auckland Art Gallery, last week. He was opening a display on the work of the painter William Hogarth and John Gay’s “Beggar’s Opera.” “Where we in the cities lack real folk music, we have found it through jazz,” he said. “I do not mean through the popular crooning and sentimental drivel one can hear on the radio, but in jazz with virility. I think the ‘Beggar’s Opera' has something of that quality.”
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27466, 28 September 1954, Page 9
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