GOOD MUSIC POPULAR

Taranaki Daily News, 5 July 1930, Page 6

GOOD MUSIC POPULAR

• m ■ INFLUENCE- OF: WIRELESS.': ■ -■ : SCHOOLS OF MODERN COMPOSERS. Interest in good music is becoming , more general, in the opinion of Mr. G. Ivanoff, musical director, who arrived at Auckland by the Marama this week. Mr. Ivanoff’s native town is Odessa, on the Black Sea, and he took his degree of -M. Mus. in Moscow. For three years lie was violin examiner at the Melbourne University Conservatorium. The gramophone and the wireless had made better music available to a greater number of people, said Mr. Ivanoff. Moro than this, public taste itself, was changing, and was reverting to classical composition. It was a case of the swing of the pendulum. “After wars,” said Mr. Ivanoff, “there are always sweeping changes, and the old ’ standards go by the board.” The world of music was no exception to the rule. It was the same after the Napoleonic Wars. Other ideas about life arose and music was written to suit the new thought. In 1318, jazz was crowned king, but after twelve years he thought the pendulum was about to swing. There was to-day a finer mastership in musical composition. All forms of symphony showed it, and even jazz music was being written so that it was suitable for an orchestra. Modern schools of music were arising, with a perfection of detail that was near that attained by the older, more famous composers. In France, Germany and Great Britain men were writing music which he considered would some day be deemed worthy of comparison with that of the recognised masters. In Germany he mentioned the name of Ilonberg, who was the virtual leader of a new school there; in France there were Ravel, Fraur and Foret, and Great Britain, which, as far as music was concerned, had been dormant for many years, had of late years produced Goosens, Baxt and Delius. “These men are not very famous yet,” admitted Mr. Ivanoff, “but, as I have said, they will be.” The i*vival in music was just one phase of a new interest in all the arts. * As better music was- being demanded ■ and written, so the other sister arts j were on a higher plane. He was opti- 1 mistie of the future of all the arts, P and he thought the awakened interest J would be sustained. ■ “What the people j demand, that they get,” he said. ” (