MUSIC AND CITIZENSHIP

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 257, 25 July 1921, Page 4

MUSIC AND CITIZENSHIP

A CITY’S ARTISTIC PROGRESS.

Interesting remarks on music were made by Mr. Horace Hunt, president of the Society of Musicians, nt its meeting held on Saturday evening. "Music properly cultivated,” he said, "could be a tremendous power in tho development of tho higher faculties, nnd could do much to counteract the many ugly aspects of modern civilisation. In music, as in other things, the future depends upon tho children, and special attention should bo paid in our schools to the cultivation of good taste and'high ideals.” Mr. Hunt thought it would be an excellent idea, were parents to encourage musical education by encouraging their musical children to take up another instrument in addition to the pianoforte. Possibly school orchestras would become more (ho rule than the exception, and the nuclei hight thus be formed of a State orchestra worthy of the community. "Instead of bemoaning parted prestige in music," he concluded, “let us join in a little constructive work and building upon existing conditions, prepare tor great things—the future! The ideal citizen.! take it, is as keenly interested in the artistic progress of the city as he is in its political and commercial advance.