MUSIC CLUBS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20400, 5 May 1928, Page 7

MUSIC CLUBS.

A SYDNEY MOVEMENT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, April 12. Decentralisation, which the politicians are so fond of talking about, but which, like the ghost, is more talked about than witnessed in material form, has taken a now form in Sydney. The aim is to decentralise music, to find openings for more public appearances for singers and other musicians who earn their living, or the bulk of it, that way, and to provide musical programmes for those jn the suburbs who find it inconvenient to go into the city at night. With this object, what are termed music clubs have already been formed in two of the leading suburbs. Men and women, after having been in the all day, and having reached home tired in the evening, are disinclined, especially in the distant suburbs, to travel into tho city again at night to sit out even the best concert. The aim of tho music clubs is to bring together music-lovers and to summon to their midst in the suburbs the best musical talent which they can afford; to make it practicable, iii short, and, of course, also profitable, for throe or four good artists to travel to a suburb and give a concert instead of asking suburbia to travel all the way into the city to hear them, and putmg into the coffers of the railways, tramways, and bus companies quite a lot of money which it is felt ought to be going -to artists or to the amenities of a good local club. It is believed that if, say, 300 or 400 people in a suburb subscribe a guinea a year to a local music club they should be able to attract to them for most months of the year talent of a high order. Mr Oliver King, one of Sydney’s _ leading artists, is throwing h.s wc’ght into the movement.