UGLY MODERN MUSIC.
BELIEF IN THE OLD WASTERS. Dr. Henry Coward, conductor of Sheffield Choir, speaking at Hull ' i liave been told that Bach is an old fossil; that Handel should be buried Tor 30 vears; that Mozart wrote only "piffle"; that it was time Beethoven was knocked off his pedestal because he was dull and his instrumentation out-of-date; that Gounod was contemptible; and that Wagner has not composed a bar of real music. When one hears this sort or tiling one's gorge rises Willi indignation. Then there is Ihe "highbrow," the superior person who scorns everything not ul-tra-classical; Ihe niedlaevalist; Ihe in-dividuality-monger; the one-man rnIhusiast; the crank; tin: poser: who wants lo he in Ihe swim: and Ihe jazzisi : whose shallowness of judgement is abysmal. Shall we have lo scrap musical organism', which has in en progressively adjusted !'"" •"'"" years, in favour of uninspired, ugl> cleverness on Ihe one hand and Ihe vulgarity of jazz on the oilier'.'. I answer "No," mosl decidedly. The old •standards of art. us or morality, sliil ri main, and will proceed, in spile of occasional lapses from the normal.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16751, 18 March 1926, Page 11
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