EFFECT OF RADIO
COMMUNITY AND MUSIC
LOSS TO LOCAL ARTISTS
SYDNEY, May 5. Mr. W. H. Dixon, director of the Royal Christchurch Musical Society, has arrived hero from England. Ho said that there had been a serious decline in community effort in music owing to radio programmes having stultified tho natural ■ outlook. There was not tho same interest in amateur ~musicnl societies or repertory movements. Ho expressed the opinion that radio wus a menace to be dealt with seriously. Artists iv such great centres as Manchester had beon complaining that everything was radiated from London. "Most people are now prepared to get their entertainment by turning a knob-or a dial," said-Mr. Dixon.', Ho feared cultured effort in the Dominions would be crushed if any unrestricted Empire broadcasting scheme wore adopted. ' Local artists • would secure no work. People ,were even forgetting to go to church because they could get their services from broadcast studios. -"
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 13
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153EFFECT OF RADIO Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 13
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