MUSIC IN AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 173, 19 April 1937, Page 14

MUSIC IN AMERICA

Return to Higher Standard of Programmes By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, April 16. ‘‘People are music crazy in the United States,” declared Mr. H. Neville-Smith, a member of the vocal staff of the State Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, and a member of the Royal Arts Society of Sydney, who is returning by the Monterey from England and America. In America, said Mr. Neville-Smith, concerts and operas were absolutely packed to the doors. “Generally, I think there is a decided return of better and deeper music in the States, and programmes over the air are of mpch higher quality than formerly. I can-' not speak so definitely a,bout the position 1 in England, for I did not have a chance to study it to any degree. I am still of the opinion that Australian and New Zealand voices are exceptionally fine. Richard Crooks remarked the same thing to me.” Mr. Neville-Smith expressed pleasure at Professor Shelley’s appointment as Director of Broadcasting, and predicted a high standard - of radio programmes.