Chinese Music for Western Interpretation Mrs. Tessa Dent McGuire, who is a composer and musical artist, has come to China for the purpose of studying Chinese music with a view to incorporating its harmonies into Occidental rhythm. She is trying to get the spirit of the peopl and their music by studying the Chinese theatre and Tistening to native musicians and then she will study its composition with that background.
Mrs. McGuiré is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of music, but her talent is original, and her work is all done by ear. Her best-known compositions are the '"Banshee" and a Ballad, which are already semi-classics, and her popular music has aided and furthered the general upward trend of the popular music of to-day, particularly in the line of the interpretation of pictures, which has developed into quite an art In fact, it is the composition of a prologue for a Chinese cinema which is to be brought to China by a large production company that has brought Mrs. McGuire to this country. She is now in Shanghai, but she will go on to Peking and other parts of China in order to learn the secret of Chinese harmony before beginning her work.
Mrs. McGuire worked with John Wharry Lewis, the well-known orchestra leader of the California theatre orchestra in Oakland. Jalifornia, who has gone so far in tha interpretation of moving-pictures as to harmonize, by transposition, the selections for the entire evening's programme so that there is no break in its unity. The latest popular instrumental composition written by Mrs. McGuire and published by a western publishing company is a_ fox-trot called "Evening," which rivals '"Dardanella'"" when orchestrated and lends itself to interpretation on a chuan, and the other from Shang-single instrument better than the latter.
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