CHAIE OF MUSIC

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 5

CHAIE OF MUSIC

WANTED IN SYDNEY

Although it was not likely that a New South Wales clyur of music would be established at Sydney this year, the Minister of Education (Mr. Di*ummond) said that the Government was not lacking in sympathy with such a project and it was bound to come, reports the Sydney "Daily Telegraph." Mr. Drurnmond, who was speaking at the Musical Association's luncheon to the conductors and visiting choirs competing at the Eisteddfod, the executive of tho Eisteddfod and tho executive of Music Week, added, "as Min-~ ister I am torn between two distinct tendencies, , one the necessity for economy and the other to take steps for the establishment of a New South Wales chair of music. However, I hope it will shortly become an accomplished fact, either through private aid or with Government assistance."

Mr. Leonard Francis, replying for the visiting conductors, referred to the cultural effect of music on nations, reminding his listeners that "the culture of a nation can be better- assessed by its leisure than its labour."

Sir Samuel Walter, replying for the Eisteddfod organisation, referred also to the value of competition in lifting musical standards and moulding national character. He urged the Government to take a leaf from the book of Queensland by reducing fares for competitors. In congratulating the Press for its assistance, in making Music Week ".unparalleled in any part of the worljl for numbers, diversity, or magnitude," Mr. Boland Foster.said: "I tako back all I said about the disproportionate allowance for sport and athletics at the expense of music. The Press has given us>.all we expected and more besides, and they are to be warmly congratulated."