MUSIC IN ENGLAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23708, 16 January 1939, Page 10

MUSIC IN ENGLAND

LONDON THE WORLD’S CENTRE BRITISH VIOLINIST'S OPINION (Special to Daily Times) AUCKLAND. Jan. 15. The view that London was now the hub of the world’s musical criticism, and the centre where more good music was heard than anywhere else, was expressed by Mr Maurice Clare, the British violinist who. with his wife and daughter, arrived by the Rimutaka on Saturday. Mr Clare hopes to settle in New Zealand. As a result of the totalitarian regimes in Germany and Italy, the world’s best teachers were now to be found in England and America. Mr Clare said. The quality of the music being produced by the British composers was to-day at least equal to that coming from any other country. . Born in Scotland. Mr KNare studied abroad under some of the world’s greatest teachers of violin, Sevick in Czechoslovakia, Carl Flesch in Germany. and Georges Enseco in Paris and Rumania at about the time Yehudi Menuhin was learning from him. On his return to England he played in the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and since then in addition to playing solo and in quartets, he has done a good deal of teaching and broadcasting. Very interested in musical composition. Mr Clare hopes to make a collection of Maori music. He has brought with him an Andrea Guarnerius violin made about 1650. which he values at £6OO.