CROONING CONDEMNED
When talking today to Rorarrans at their weekly luncheon on the subject of "Why Bother With Music?" Mr. Stanley Oliver, conductor of the Royal Choral condemned "miserable crooning" as "next to opiates, the most damaging force in civilisation today." He was not condemning, he said, popular tunes with swing and sentiment. If people liked them, let them sing them by all means, but they should not sing songs with silly words.
Mr. Oliver concluded a very humorous address with a plea for ths support of competitions, the advantages of which outweighed the disadvantages, for co-operation in musical activities, and for an abandonment of the ultra-critical attitude which was killing. Music in New Zealand, he thought, coulS do with a Mttle of the American boost, and in helping it along Rotarians could play a part.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 110, 5 November 1935, Page 10
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136CROONING CONDEMNED Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 110, 5 November 1935, Page 10
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