"I would be willing to take a barrel-organ down to Whitechapel, where I am_ sure the children would readily dance to good tunes rather than the filth' supplied to them now," said Sir Hugh Allen, Principal of the Royal College of Music, addressing the Society of Musicians recently. Among other good things Sir Hugh said:—"Nothing is so subtle as bad music. Tt is far worse that measles.
"J would have a school for parents who should attend compulsorily until they could detect one good tune out of a lot of bad ones, and give their reasons for liking Jazz music more than o Folk Song tune or dance, "The requirements of a music teacher include the mind of a seer, the ability of a magician, the persuasiveness of an Or-phons, the eye of a hawk, the car of a terrier, the patience of Job, the opti. ism of Micawber, the physique of Her-criles, the delicacy and quickness of a dragonfly, the courage of a lion, and the diplomaty of an archangel."
At the same gathering Mr. Allen Gill, of London, deplored the fact that "cinemas, the most horrible of all things, are taking away from the musical profession the only available halls."
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