A MENACE TO MUSIC
EFFECT OF THE RADIO. MUSICIAN'S CONDEMNATION. Received May 5. 11 p.m. SYDNEY, May 5. Mr. W. H. Dixon, director of the Royal Christchurch Musical Society, arrived here from England. He said that there had 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. 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 is radiated from London. Most people are now prepared to get their entertainment by turbing a knob or dial. He feared that cultural effort in the Dominions would be crushed if any unrestricted Empire broadcasting scheme was adopted. Local artists would secure no work. People were even forgetting to go to church because they could get their services from broadcast studios.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 8
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156A MENACE TO MUSIC Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 8
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