"JAZZ MUSIC IMMORAL"
ATTACK BV PADEREWSKI. i "Jazz will do no good to the world's music, nor will it lead non-musical people t,, bettor things. It is a perversion ot rhythm and taste. Vol. cannot teach morals by teaching immorality." So declared Padereuski it. an interview in Christchui'ch. "During I lie 23 years since my last visit, the standard of the, world's mil si has risen, considerably. It has meant tremendously hard work for me to k.e: abreast of so marked an advance," In added. Much of Pudercwski's later life has been spent in America. In the sebnnb of the Diiilcd States, there was mil T attention paid, to music, and, provided the instruct ion was well directed, he agreed that this would have a wonderfu' influence on American musical taste. Fn most of the secondary and in some of the primary schools. I hey even have skilled orchestras. The talented visitor -hums that, So far as he has been able to see yet, the New Zealand apnre'hition of music has] increased since his last visit.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16375, 24 June 1927, Page 12
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