MUSIC IN SCHOOLS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 643, 22 December 1932, Page 15

MUSIC IN SCHOOLS.

Report to College Board of Governors. Organisation, and correlation and extension of the teaching of music in the high schools was the subject of a report by Miss J. L. Black and Mr T. Vernon Griffiths to the meeting of the Canterbury College Board of Governors yesterday afternoon. The report stated that by recognising music as a definite school subject, the school authorities had an opportunity to work for a much-needed improvement in the general musical life of the community; (1) by educating the public taste for future generations; (2) by encouraging the many to take a keen amateur interest in music, while discouraging all except th,p unusually talented from adopting music as a profession; (3) by bringing to bear upon musical life the generous enthusiasms and unselfish “ team spirit ” of the school—both of which were sadly lacking in the “ grown-up ” musical world; and (4) by replacing the all too prevalent “ professionalism ” of to-day with a generous and healthy enthusiasm for music for its own sake.