No Support for Music
POLITICIANS CRITICISED LONDON, Jan. 6. Sir Thomas Beecham, just back from a tour of Germany, lashed out at the authorities in this country for “their utter lack of a sense of musicql responsibility,” before opening the Covent Garden opera season. “Wherever I went in Germany— Dresden, Cologne, Munich, Stuttgart, Leipzig—l listened to music in fine municipal opera houses, from orchestras generously subsidised by the State,” declared Sir Thomas. “Here, our politicians, who scatter millions about for any other purpose under the sun, contribute not a single farthing toward music. Other arts, such as painting, ar© liberally endowed. Huge sums are expended on museums. But music—not a ponnypiece I “Unfortunately, so long as our M.P.’s are drawn from, the more ignorant section of the community, I see little hope of any improvement. Tho only chance for music that I see is that in the course of time a different breed of politician may spring up with some? glimmering of artistic intelligence.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 9
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164No Support for Music Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 9
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