MUSICAL REVIVAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17231, 10 April 1930, Page 15

MUSICAL REVIVAL

A FESTIVAL WEEK encouraging local talent At ah enthusiastic public meeting at Auckland, strong support was given to a proposal to arrange a musical festival week from August 17 to 23. The Mayor, Mr. G. Baildon, who piesided, said that similar festivals were being arranged throughout the Dominion to revive public interest in music and local talent. “We have always been justly proud of our place in the'arfs, and why should we be slack about music to-day?” asked Dr. S. K. Phillips, president of the Societv of Musicians. Gramophone music*was all right in its place, and it gave people the opportunity of healing good music that they otherwise would not hear, but to produce the A emulative spirit the public needed to atY tend local concerts and encourage loca artists. For that reason the Festival Society would not ask the Broadcasting Co. to* broadcast its concerts. It wanted to get the public into the halls. Representatives j. of the , Auckland < hoi a Society, the Auckland Society of Professional Musicians’ Union,the Bohemian Orchestra, the Royal Auckland Choir, the Ponsonby Boys’ Brass Band, the Blind Institute Band, School Musical Societies, and other bodies supported the movement.