SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
Praise For Orchestras In Australia SYDNEY, July 31. “I was warned before 1 came to Australia that I would be disappointed in vour orchestras. But they are good-, they have great musical sensibility, said Sir Thomas Beecham, in an address at a reception by the Musical Association. . "In this way they are better than many orchestras in Europe: but hat i>not to sav that they are tahnicall) superior. Australians are a more musical people than the English, the Scoteu, the French. -For every one person you get to go t( , a concert hall, you can get 100 to go to a theatre. Opera s the great dra-met of music. Through the roundabout wav you can divert people even-‘tn-illv to‘the concert hall. Mhy go to concerts to hear excerpts from Wagner or to hear singers in evening dress sing arias from Mozart, when' real opera provides something for everybody? “Why this self-abnegation? There is a great and widespread yearning for music among Australians.’ Sir Thomas Beecham praised the Australian Broadcasting Commission. He said that it contrasted strongly with the 8.8. C, which, as long as he had known it, had “never done anything right."
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 281, 22 August 1940, Page 2
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