TURKISH MUSIC
Modern Melodies Wanted
MUSTAPHA KEMEL’S DECREE I have to record sad news, says “Ariel” in the “Press.” Mustapha Kemal Pasha, Grand Old Man of Turkey, has decreed that theie is to bo no more “plaintive Oriental music’ sung or played from the delightful land of carpets and coffee. “Our music,” he says, “does not do us honour. It is necessary for Turkish composers to compose beautiful melodies written on modern lines. Only thus can Turkey make a name for herself in the musical world.” For the last few years Mustapha Kemal Pasha has been going mild Western. Turkish ladies no longer wear long trousers and veils. Turkish school children now learn the alphabet according to modern American modes. Instead of the plaintive notes of the bul-bul (or is that Persian?) are heard the plaintive notes of the saxophone. And now those f inny-sounding pines and one-note flutes, and one-sided drums are to be banished to limbo. From Stamhuol we may hear in future similar programmes to those from Hammersmith (England), or Berkeley (California), or Newcastle (New South Wales). This is just too bad. Tt seems that radio listeners are to be subjected to a monstrous regimentation.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 148, 8 June 1935, Page 9
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198TURKISH MUSIC Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 148, 8 June 1935, Page 9
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