FOR MUSICAL TASTE

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 62, 10 September 1921, Page 5

FOR MUSICAL TASTE

Concert audiences are generally composed of two unequal \ parts, tine cognoscenti and the others, the latter greatly predominating. It is exceedingly difficult to estimate the proportions of each, so much depending-on locality and occasion. A Queen's Hall audience, or one at the State Orchestral performance in Sydney, for. example, js more likely to contain a large percentage of really musically-educated listeners than one, say, at any "Grand. Concert"; but the rule still holds that the "others" are largely in th,e majority at all concerts. If asked why'they attend concerts at all, the "others" would probably reply : "I like music, and I know what I like, even though I don't know much' about it." The Wellington Society of Musicians realises that more should be done to enlighten the great majority of concert audiences. In a laudable effort to do so, ■ it proposes to give three concerts, each devoted to works of a particular composer, prefaced by brief explanatory remarks. Tlie society will set out, not only to entertain, but to educate and inform concert audiences. It will not do so for profit., but for tlve. sake1 of art and , for She elevation of populw taste in music.