A MUSICIAN’S VIEWPOINT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 116, 19 May 1939, Page 2

A MUSICIAN’S VIEWPOINT

THE HANDICAP OF ISOLATION' ' INTERVIEW WITH HAMILTON DICKSON The artist flourishes in a congenial •.tmosphere,” said Mr. Hamilton Dickson, when interviewed yesterday. “He is a creature of a community. Sculpture and music are in Rome and the artist who goes there is surrounded by it. Drawing at the Slade in London, or in Paris is a different matter compared with an artist working on his own in • New Zealand. In those centres he picks up a point here and a point .there, he learns a piece of technique i.Gm this one and another way of aci compfishing the same result from an|oilier worker. Each helps the other. 'The greatest handicap which an artI ist can overcome is that of isolation ; and in this respect. Miss Joan Crani stone has much to her credit. If you iwill examine the numbers contained . in her programme for Saturday night’s concert you will see included items which would grace that of a visiting professional. Miss Cranstone has made very good progress during her musical education and especially so during the last two years when she .appears to have gathered pace, so to speak. I have every confidence that I she will go on developing and those iv.ho hear her now will have the pleas- ■ ure of witnessing that development in ' the years to come.”