MUSIC AND NOISE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 13

MUSIC AND NOISE

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Your sub-leader undet the above caption in Thursday's "Post" was timely and very much to the point, especially the final sentence— "the' modem musician might well* study the healing art of the music that 'hath charms,' instead 6f adding to the evil"—i.e., the evil of noise.

Dr. Harvey Grace's denunciation of the modern musician's "craze for noise,1' which inspired your article, pravides a Welcome indication > that normal musicians ate becoming rapidly aware of the menace to musical sanity offered by the Works of certain present-day composers, who ate not all foreigners, incidentally: quite a number of prominent British writers are ageing and trying to emulate the eccentricities— using iib harsher term—of Hindemith, Hoist, StaVifisky, Respighi, Bartok, Honnegger, Alban Berg, and all the rest of them. ' True music stands ih greater danger from this SOUfce than from, jazz and crooning, which, after all, do not profess any serious aim.—l am, etc., L. D. AUSTIN., September 2.