MUSIC AND SOCIAL REFORM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 19 January 1926, Page 7

MUSIC AND SOCIAL REFORM

".Music had played a most important part in the history ot every civilisation, it was said that the* earliest musical instrument dated back 1300 years 8.l . -\t every stage in the history ot human civilisation music had been accepted as an essential condition There could be no question about its eh •••.'. on human einr.ieter and human society,’ - s 1 d lb' •1. B. B.iilhe. vice-oluiacellor o'* bee.ls University, in a recent speech, ‘Gieie is hardly'a mood of tlit* human mind." Dr. Baillic eontintied. ‘'which cannot be I lanqiiiliseil. purilied. clarified, heightened, lowered, maintained, sustained. or harmonised by music. It was a remarkaide fact that most people found music net simply a relaxation, as many dec tribed it. Inn as a relief In our lite, particularly in the intense social hie *.u the present day, there was an enormous amount of repressed emotion Music was an opportunity of liberating, expanding, controlling and directing such emotion: and that would be found more and nunc important as life went tin. 1 lie increase in musical education was a vast national asset. Playing was important. but appreciation was equally important. If they could cultivate widely and intelligently an interest in music; they would go a long way t" removing the discontents under which We now suffered. bet serial reformers teach their country liiav In sing.