MUSIC WEEK

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 71, 20 September 1930, Page 9

MUSIC WEEK

SUCCESS DT SYDNEY

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 11th September.

Sydney has been indulging in a Music Week. As with Health Week, Eat More Fruit Week, Drink More Milk Week, and all the other weeks, it excited quite a lot of attention, and its promoters say it was a great success. No one will mind as long as it does not produce a fresh crop of suburban saxophonists or encourage fond parents to believe that, in thetfr infant prodigies, they have potential Paganinis or Paderewskis, or budding composers with all the spiritual fprvour of Palestrina, One can hardly walk two yards in Sydney | now without meeting out-of-work music- j ians, and being accosted by their collectors. If the week inspires people with the idea that there is money in music, they only want to look round Sydney. The fostering, on broad lines, of a love of good nmsic, however, is a good idea. Of the church folk, the Methodists notably swung themselves enthusiastically behind Music Week. This is not surprising, for it is as what might be termed a singing church that Methodism is noted. It is the power of song, rather than the exhortative influence of its speakers, that attracts such big crowds in Sydney every Sunday to the Lyceum Hall. Every good Methodist knows that John Wesley's conversion was in part attributable to music, and his fervent evangelical ministry in no small measure to the hymns of gifted brother Charles. So there arc possibilities in Music Week. It might inspire someone to sot Sydney's troubles to good, inspiriting, crashing music, and thus feed the flames of economic revival, just as music has fed the lire of spiritual fcrvonr.