Dead End

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31262, 7 January 1967, Page 5

Dead End

•THERE’S no such thing really as light music—in the great sense of the word. It’s a modern name for a modem thing. It seems to be harder to write a good piece of modem light music than it is to write a good piece of modem music. And interpretation is the same. The young conductors eome along, but they all want to conduct symphonies and nobody wants to become a great conductor of Strauss waltzes or anything of that kind. So I feel it’s a sort of dead end at the moment. I just like conducting music. Some of it people call light and some people call it. serious, but I don’t really recognise any difference.—Stanford Robinson, 8.8. C. conductor.

“The St Louis GlobeDemocrat” has chosen an Italian composer. Signor Alfonso D’Artega, to write a march in its honour. Temptation to give it a rousing, flamboyant name must have been strong. But self-denial has won. It is to be called simply “The St. Louis GlobeDemocrat JMarch.”