MUSIC AND MONEY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 10 March 1923, Page 8

MUSIC AND MONEY.

SIR HUGH ALLEN'S WIT.

Sir Hugh Allen, professor of "music, | Oxford University, addressing, the In- ' porporated Society of Musicians at.Oxford, said a. professional musician was 70110 who made money? with his music and an amateur one who made music /with liis money: -"Aj ■ ■■' r Music- was now getting into the cran- ! nies of human life in a way that it had never done before. When a person told him he wanted to learn music because he liked it, he retorted, "I like apples,; but I am, not going" to be a greengrocer." . .3./ .-..- .-'■' Some people thought that to be able to play, a difficult piece of music made tliem musicians.. /There -was a/ lack of humility about a/person who/ when asked if /he 3 could do something,■." answered, "17 have hot tried it", 'but I could do it.'' .3- 7/.- 7---" People should be taught" to listen. A Because people could not listen properly music j had always been at a dis- ■ count. -■""' ■''.-'■-':•■ 7-'' - •---' - 3 .'-. -"''

It was a matter of great importance whether there should" not be a minimum qualification for the exercise of the profession of music. Gorgeous academic gowns were not everything. There was a tendency to think that outward adornment meant inward and' spiritual grace. The only medal worth wearing was that which had been won in action.