CHILDREN ON MUSIC

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 21 July 1925, Page 2

CHILDREN ON MUSIC

Bournemouth school children who have attended a series of lectures by Sir Dan Godfrey, conductor of the Municipal Orchestra, have written essays giving impressions of the talks on music which the corporation has provided for them. Having heard Sir Dan Godfrey’s criticism of jazz music, they all declare it to be poor stuff that, will not last, but they confess that when the orchestra played the foxtrot “What’ll I Do,” with the idea of showing them the inferior quality of jazz, they all sang it aloud.

Here are some of their opinions:— ; Symphony is music in its dress clothes.

The conductor has to show the players when to swell out and when to get soft.

A conductor' should give his orchestra time.

It is wonderful how the orchestra looked at Sir Dan Godfrey , and never went wrong.

Modern composers’ songs are all right, but. they do not. go right to the soul. The music in blood-and-thunder drama makes me laugh.

Foxtrots and one-steps are pieces of poor quality composed by insignificr nt men.

i Here’s to the death of jazz and the utilversal appreciation’ of tlie old masters. Si like tlie drums; they break tlie silerlce and rrjnke striking contrasts. When the big drum is beaten it seems as if something niight happen. Some of the greatest musicians were Russians with queer names. Schubert was very poor; his eompositions were often sold for a. song,