CORRESPONDENCE. COMMUNITY SING—AN APPRECIATION.

Shannon News, 28 July 1922, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

COMMUNITY SING—AN APPRECIATION.

Sir, —The huge success which crowned the first Community Sing in Shannon makes all who were so fortunate as to attend it impatient for a return of the pleasure. It was one big smite from start to finish, from the smiling face of the pianist and the smiling and most, able conductor, to the smiling audience. Not a cold glance, not an unkind attitude could have survived in vliat. atmosphere of cheer and geniality. Everyoone sang with a will, everyone came not to show off their singing, but just to be “jolly.” All the dear old tunes were there, simple almost to folly, perhaps, some of them, but all endeared by memories and associations. “Massa’s in de cold, cold ground,” that lyric of sweet pathos, and for sharpest contrast the rollicking swing of the .-old college song, “Clementine,” and to wind up a regretably short programme inost suitably, that most sacred and beloved of all songs, “Home, Sweet Home.” Encore! Encore!l Encore!!!—l am, etc., SINGER.

[Our correspondent’s appreciation is timely, and, we. are sure, will be welcomed v by the promoters of the sing. What Shannon—and, in fact ,all the small communities we are acquainted with—needs most is the ‘‘get together” spirit, to have every individual pulling one way for the common good, and there is nothing that draws units together sooner than singing in harmony. For this reason community singing is worthy of encouragement, as being likely to produce more lasting effects than the pleasure of the moment.]