DAME ETHEL SMYTH
MODERN MUSIC CRITICISED. Dame Ethel Smyth, speaking at-the annual dinner of the Critics’ Circle at the Savoy Hotel on behalf of “music,” said that her task was difficult, because she contrived to hear little or nothing of modern music, and, what made matters worse, she did not enjoy the wireless with overwhelming passion, states an exchange. The old stagers lived in the days when music was supposed to express certain emotions, but she fancied tlhat this was no longer considered obligatory. What was really happening in music to-day was an expression of the massed vigour, drive, ingenuity, and speed which had brought forth racing cars, aeroplanes, and the stratoscope, or whatever the thing was called, in which people went up 10 miles in the air and then dropped down into a crevasse. Modern composers were expressing new ideas, and once they had grasped them they would begin to enjoy modern music. If they demanded the sort of emotionalism that did not fit the ideas of young people they might J be left high and dry.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 152, 29 June 1934, Page 2
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