SCHOOL OF MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 126, 20 February 1908, Page 9

SCHOOL OF MUSIC.

SOME FURTHER REMARKS. ' , LOOK TO,THE PRESENT ■ Passing reference 1 was. made by Mr. J. W. Joynt, M.A., at tho meeting of tho"Musical Union" on Tuesday evening to tho' proposed school of music. 1; . . Mr. Joynt said that a good deal had been appearing in tho .papers on this; subject. The progress. : of; .music in Now, .Zealand, he said, miist not"-be • allowed Vto T.tfait for- any big shadows thatmight ho looming upon, tho horizon. ' Music • was I ''carried/ on and developed 'by the individual assistance of' tcachci'9' and' porformers,:'nnd ,'by the efforts, ■most of'all, of choral aild musical societies. ( Eyc'ry performance of a socioty' such-as theirs .elovated the . public taste ■ several degreesjhighcr'-' than; before. •] This- threw ' a certain Amount''of; responsibility upon' them.' It'.was not: by dreaming of big things that they could assist, tho development of. music. , Ho.also dissented from:.a.'statemcnt..in a paper that the musical tasto in New Zealand was: higher twenty .years ago, than now. ..This, was un'true. . No' doubt' tho statement was' wellmeant; , Probably tho writer thought to • improvement. Ho had a high, respect for the writer',: but',it must bo.,remembered that;.music; appoalefl to people;: in different.;-, ways.: . Tho speaker, thought ! that music, in the -colony had undoubtedly progressed. In the wido; diffusion of: musical knowledge.and. in. the 'results .producediday; by day. by .qualified .teachers, thoro- was, no doubt people'knew a; great deal more-.now, and that the standard of both -vocal and.instrumental music, was higher. * Ho ; said this as a word of, encouragement. Lot them not 'wait for .something they might: or, might not get, [but make, ; tlie best uso, of the opportunitiesand means they had;-'. ■•"...•