MUSIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2104, 18 March 1920, Page 2

MUSIC.

A MALE CHOIR, including leading vocalists, is about to be formed in Levin, under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A., and the leadership of Mr Gilbert. The choir will number 25 voices, and special attention will be given to untrained singers. The only financial charge is Is per member for music. Apropos of singing, we are informed that Captain Gollin is about to start a singing class for boys under the auspices of the Red Shield Club. We wish him success. Singing as a if art Is being neglected in many of our schools; yet it is as necessary to the full development of the child as athletics. Singing develops the >ouJ of the child. MV have listened, in time-' pa-A, with considerable pleasure to the local school choir, un-

Her (lie eonduetorship of the-first- as-si-iant. We hope when the little ones are again housed in the new building that singing will continue to b'e a feature of school life. Of course, it is provided for in the school syllabus, but it needs developing. Let us not forget that music is an art “which strengthens the hands of civilised society, humanises and softens the feelings and dispositions of man, produces a refined pleasure to the mind, and tends to raise up in the soul emotions of an exalted nature.” Let us heed Shakespeare’s warning; “The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds. Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of Ids spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as .-Erebus : Let no such man he trusted.”