MUSIC PUBLISHING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27318, 18 February 1950, Page 6

MUSIC PUBLISHING

Australian Club’s Aim Help For Local Composers Amateur composers have found that getting their work published locally is considerably more difficult than the actual task of composing -new music. With the aim of facilitating publication for at least a percentage of such work, a Melbourne organisation with a quaint name —the Bread and Cheese Club—has launched a music publishing section which aims to publish two songs by members in Australia and New Zealand each month. The club points out that in folk songs and in modern music, the amount of “ imported ” music swamps the home product. "We will never build up a tradition in song and verse while we permit ourselves to be manoeuvred into singing the praises of America,' n states the club’s brochure. "Today, our children know more about Tennessee Wyoming and Atlantic City than they do of their homelands. We do not ask that American songs should oe debarred from our entertainment mediums for ’ they' have sent us many very lovely numbers. But they do inflict a'lot of music on us which is an insult to our intelligence, and which could be replaced with good, wholesome music from Australian and New Zealand composers.’”