GERMAN MUSIC OBJECTED TO.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 July 1919, Page 3

GERMAN MUSIC OBJECTED TO.

What do you think of the objection raised by Mr Maughan Barnett,city'organi^t, to the inclusion in the musical programme to be performed at the thanksgiving service at the Town Hall on >l Peace Sunday " of two items, by Handel and. Mendelssohn respectively, on the ground that German music would be out of place at this function ? Mr Barnett's objection was poohpoohed by the Peace Committee, or some of its members, but I think he was absolutely right. To celebrate our glorious victory over the Germans by performing their national music at a concert designed tb commemorate our triumph seems so utterly out of keeping with the eternal fitness of things that the neces" sity for Mr Barnetfc's protest never ought to have arisen. " The question," said Mr Hudson (member of the Peace Celebrations Committee), " as to whether a composer had German blood in him really did not matter." I beg to differ. It matters a lot. Let us cut the German connection entirely. Let us ban their commerce, their literature, their music, themselves —and everything that is theirs !