COMPLAINT AGAINST CRITICS.
CHID STC H C RC.H M CSIC.iI L l : N10N AND THE PRESS.
At the annual meeting, tlie other evening, of the Christchurch Afusical Union, newspaper criticism of the concerts held under the auspices of the Union was discussed.
The subject was introduced during a discussion on the unsatisfactory falling off -in the membership of the Union. One of the members stated that the hostile criticism of the newspapers was undoubtedly the chief factor in the decrease in membership, and added that he and another'gentleman had written to the editor of the “Lyttelton Times” asking that the musical expert of that paper should be added to the committee of the Musical Union and had further suggested that the expert should be asked to act as judge for the Union, as he apparently was such a capable critic. The letter, the speaker added, had not been published. It was urged that some steps should be taken to enlist the good offices of the Press on behalf of the Union, because it was far from fair that the Union, which was of great educational value to the public, should be damaged by the caprice of one man’s opinion. Another member endorsed the former speaker’s remarks, and added that the incompetence of the critics alluded to was largely responsible for the trouble, while “matters of fact wore absolutely , beyond them.” Air. - A. Kaye, who*was chairman of ihe meeting, remarked that he in company with Dr. Bradshaw had waited on the editor of the “Lyttelton Times,” but had obtained no satisfaction from him, although they had been received very courteously. The Union, he went on to say, had done exerything that was possible to make the critics of the newspapers comfortable. He though, however, that the criticisms of to-day were hardly so severe as those that had appeared in older days- He did not see what the'Union could.do to remedy matters but write to the papers. The commit-
tee would consider' the question raised, nn'd see what could bo done in the matter.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2410, 27 January 1909, Page 2
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