COMMUNITY MUSIC
Decline of Effort EFFECT OF BROADCASTING Press Association. —Copyright. Sydney, May 5. Mr. W. H. Dixon, director of the Royal Christchurch Musical Society, has arrived here from England. He said therehad been a serious decline in community effort in music, owing to radio programmes having stultified the natural outlook. There was not the same interest in amateur musical societies or repertory movements and he expressed the opinion that radio was a menace to be dealt with seriously. Artists in such great centres as Manchester had been complaining that everything wa ssent by radio from London. Most people were now prepared to get their entertainment by turning a knob or a dial. Mr. Dixon expressed a fear that cultural effort in the Dominions would be crushed if any unrestricted Empire broadcasting scheme were adopted and local artists would secure no work. People were even forgetting to go to church, he said, because they could get their services from the broadcast studios.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 236, 6 May 1933, Page 6
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