MUSICAL PROFESSION
OPENINGS LIMITED WARNING TO ASPIRANTS LONDON, Nov. 23. “You must be a god or nothing in music to-day.’' said Lord llmviuu do Walden at a dinner in aid of the ’Musicians’ Benevolent Fund last evening. “The standard of achievement, unfortunately, is so high to-day that a ‘heavenly’ performer of our grandfathers’ day would be considered as only ordinary now,” continued the speaker. “It is almost dangerous to eider (he profession. Wo should constitute a ‘dissuading’ branch to induce people with pretty little talents to undertake plain sewing and needlework, liecause it is fatal for them to sacnle-e their lives in order to make music their profession. “There is no possibility of finding work for musicians displaced l:v mechanical processes. ’ ’
Two serious motor accidents occurred in Hastings last week-end, and as a result no less than eight people were injured.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17951, 1 December 1932, Page 11
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141MUSICAL PROFESSION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17951, 1 December 1932, Page 11
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