BROADCASTING

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 51, 1 March 1934, Page 13

BROADCASTING

EFFECT ON MUSIC

(By Telagraph) '" (Special to the "Evening Post:") .' / S Urtru; This Da-y. '- . "While the development of broadcasting in Australia has' sounded the ■ oeath-knell of concert-giving, it is :'" exercising a' powerful and most bene-•"'■■ incial influence upon, music there " r' said Dr. Galway, Dunedin City Organ-; '-- ist, who has returned from Melbourne Broadcasting studios were makine:"': great demands on the services of per- '- forming artists, he said, and everyone'-^ who was really good could be sure-' of cr a number of engagements. Even more- — significant was the fact that broad^" -- casting seemed to have.had the effect' of stimulating people to study the mean- " -? mg of music they heard, and to en- r deavour to reproduce some of it for" 5" themselves. Parents had been given a.'";"= new interest in music, and obviously de-"? G sired to give their children that which1 ' they perhaps had missed themselves. As--'-a . consequence, private teachers were' "r very busy. :.--.-.= _ Dr. Galway found that" the TJniver- «^ sity Conservatorium of Music, Mel-;:----bourne, had more students than ever---before.. Thus, ■it would appear that "- while broadcasting may have adversely "■« affected concert-giving, its influenced;upon music and teachers had been most'" 5 beneficial. "'• ■:<::