MUSIC CLUBS
SUCCESS IN BRITAIN BENEFITS FOR ARTISTS & PUBLIC The great aim of the Federation of Music Clubs of Great Britain is to bring together the music-lover and the artist, to put supply in touch with demand in the musical world and demand in touch with supply. A large number of music clubs have, for some time been in existence in America, but if was not until 1922 that Mr. Howard-Jones, inspired by a desire to revive: chamber music. _ thought of forming music clubs in Britain. They would remedy the existing difficulties of over-centralisation, of confining first-rate concerts to a. few centres. The first music club to bo formed was at Chelsea, and eight others formed that first year. Now there are more than 30 clubs'in Great Britain. The Federation of Music Clubs was formed to promote co-operation among the clubs. Each club pays a per head tax of 5 per cent, of its subscriptions to the federation after the entertainment tax and performing rights fees have been deducted. The club in return receives the benefit ofl assistance in organisation and a substantial reduction of artists fees. CO-OPERATION This system of co-operation enables clubs in smaller towns to hear the finest artists of the day. It might not have been possible in the ordinary way for towns of the size of, say, Lewes or Painswick, to hear a great violinist, one of the finest living pianists, or a noted quartet because of tlie. size of the fees asked, the. lack of any guaranteed audience, and the artists' inability to visit a town in the south one evening when they are due to visit a town in the north , the" following afternoon. The federation wants to help the elulis in every way possible, and has made. an arrangement with the Publishing Right Society by which each club, tor an annual subscription of) not nun'e than three guineas, may perform work controlled by that society. This means that the smaller clubs may perform modern Works which they might, in other conditions, have found too expensive.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17237, 17 April 1930, Page 4
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343MUSIC CLUBS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17237, 17 April 1930, Page 4
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