INVIGORATION IN MUSIC.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 84, 7 August 1915, Page 4

INVIGORATION IN MUSIC.

■. there anything wrong with amuseleuts during the war:- The question i pin by "Musical Xews" owing to ha lapse of the Hereford and Leeds nt<ir;-i festival*, on the ground ol it i\ i. <'ii;_ i n;e< •i-ut'ir!*-' Tim 'No one will sock it easy to oven -.ilnat ion : hut are tii denvuur ourselves umoceut rccreati

Our soldiers at the front, who aro in

the thick of things, and whose valor is withstanding not only the assaults oi' a courageous and determined enemy, but also the diabolical ingenuity of German chemists, are clearly of opinion that 'all work and no play makes Jack a dull hoy.' As a relief from the ordeal of fighting they not only indulge in football and other. games, but they even have recourse to the solace of such music a s conies their way. Musicians defend the importance of retaining music as the best possible relief to the mental strain occasioned by anxiety regarding the progress of the war. It is a solace. a mental tonic without compare. In Germany no one talks of it being unseemly to hear music in the present crisis. On the contrary, conceit halls are crowded, the only remarkable feature being that, broadly speaking. the public find little enjoyment in modem German composers, but demands chiefly to hear the music of Bach. .Mozart, anad Beethoven, be cause there it finds mental invigoration."