WANTED—PUBLIC INTEREST

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12250, 23 September 1925, Page 10

WANTED—PUBLIC INTEREST

A REAL MUSICAL NEED. - TiXcept for the-recent pianistic maul* festation of Miss Beatrice Tange, just i at the _ present time Sydney's musical talent is bloskoming? more in the field of violin playing than the pianoforte Jsays G. Me Cairos-Rego in the Sydney Telegraph”). Lately it was Harry Klass, now it is Miss Rene Rich, who some time ago won golden opinions on the occasion when she emerged ‘-as a aewlytie<lged artist.: A restless ambition runs Jike fire in the veins of these young musicians. One can hardly help sympathising with them --in the dreams that give a starry height to their thoughts and the hopes t° which they hug as a miser to lii« gold. Music with them fires rhe blood and touches the heart. Things would he much better for the aspiring artist, of course, if the public who wants music took a more practical interest in the matter. It should not be left to the.young musician to fight his nr her way into public favour unaided. If the musicmaker is ready on tho on« *° devote an uncommon musical gut- to the «ervic* of th* public the more discerning of the public should esteem it their duly and privilege to help * uc h a one along the rood which leads to the goal of wider public recognition. Otherwise, while ambition lasts, it is too often a case of real musical talent doomed to wear life away in a ceaseless struggle for a footing.