LISTENING TO MUSIC.
Applause is like the vote. Not a few do not exercise the right at all, but it is there for use when things become serious. Like the vote, applause—or silence—never has a straight and single issue to decide. Unlike the vote, which is preceded by much discussion, and followed by much hard thinking, applause is spontaneous (as a rule), and is forgotten as soon as the sound has died away. Except as it is an act of courtesy, concerts would go on just as well without it. as they did at Hereford It is not the applause, hut the healthy discussion afterwards, when opinions can be endorsed or criticised and reasons may have to he given, that matters. An ideal audience would be one of which every member came determined to he attentive enough to he able to give himself, or happily a friend, a lucid account of what lie had heard. In fact, music is worth taking a little trouble with, so that neither pessimist nor optimist shall have it all his own way.—Mr A. H. Fox-Strangways in “ The Observer.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1927, Page 2
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184LISTENING TO MUSIC. Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1927, Page 2
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