GRAMOPHONE NOTES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 June 1925, Page 11

GRAMOPHONE NOTES

"The attitude of inUsitMl people to ' wards the in<>|>ln 'in' was t<■ <’ man'. 1 vears nothing jess ti:u criminally dui! | witted,” s?a'iJ Mr Compton iMackoiuv*. i ii,. n- on ‘ Tin- Gramophone: na r.Uv-., LV-*:'..*., H.al Fti'me/ OJvVJI I.L ) ; the bdmied A:«JOC«.U.->-. j Jt V v w :-i i.n?-’lar ’ t'-L* Ida eh arm..- ~ , ..... i!, • i i f - v.'!m: p-mling had in- t-e k'e alu. r. .ni,l. whether out "l piggidi in <*!•. stupidity. or ktriuess. 11 n■- musical pub I it- allowed it to In- exploited by coin-, mereial interests with as l little concern ns it t!w'v were watching ihe exploita- > tm/m of n patent medicine. This lack of interest was till but fatal, and even now lie did not know how. ex j cept by Divine pi'uvidence. we bail escaped seeing the gramophone and every j tiling ernnrted with it as rapidly and as dre id full v debased as the e’incmato graph. However, we laid escaped, and now. when the recording companies \\ • r ' producing every month more cm I uittsic tiian. t!ic\ fee mcriy prodme.! :u five years, tin y were ’ never so pms.per.ut.-c Moreover, they had the sal istac'.ion e.t kilowing that tiie production of god r< eroded mush in Kugland exceeded every month by far the united production ef the rest, of the world. Not merely was the best music produced, hut it- was produced in the best way. Nothing that, was being done by wealthy men and women to cultivate lb.' public taste 11 : oilier arts could compare with wind the public was doing to cultivate its own basin in music by means of the gramophone. Ihe effect of the gramophone c< aid net fail to In mi imaginably great. It had already killed tiie tyranny of the piano, and he could not. lnu- feel a beautiful justice in its outstanding failure to reproduce adctpiale ly an instrument- that had done so much to hinder tile development of, music. (Laughter). For years uneducated mtisi cal taste, had been allowed to suppose that enjoyment ol the piano and enjoyment of music were synonymous. For years every note of music had to he trae.slafed into terms of the piano. if \\< liI:I he as reasonable m expect young people to begin Fnglish verse by translating it into Latin elegiacs as in expect that- they would enjoy music by healing only through the piano. Further im pi ovements were pending in the gramophone, and in u short time existing criticism would hr swept away. and they would lie nearer to the perfection of which they dreamt.