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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 497, 3 May 1909, Page 9

i : . ■ : '■ :•■ : i Kate: I'You ought to have heard Mr. Doariovo's ringing speech Inst night." Annie: "Why, • I-wasn't aware he could make a' speech." Kate: "Woll, ho made one, just the same. I can't'repeat the speech, hut I ban show'you the ring." ■ , I Sir Walter Farratt, -Master of tho King's Music and organist of St. Gcorgo's Chapel, Windsor, speaking at a conference of teachers in London, mado attack on the "poor, weak, uninspiring hymn tunes" which most of us. hear on Sunday. They woro not calculated, ho said, to nerve aiiyhody for any fight at all. .In urging an improvement in this matter,- he said: ■"Tho effect of music is iiicaJculahle.' It has been Said that very few understand it, but very many misunderstand it. It is supposed that music can never bo other than beneficial. Music can bo very much the reverse. With regard to tho choice of >music for children, it' should never go below C, an occasional B, or at most B flat,'.' ••.Hcforring to the matter of 'hymn tunes, Dr. J. H. Lewis, wardon of the Guild of Church Musicians, declared that fid hliouH liko to *en a national bouilro uiuda himi mm-