CINEMA MUSIC
Important Factor in Music Development
COMPOSER’S OPINION
“An equally potent factor in the development of our musical appetite is the motion-picture house orchestra,” states Deems Taylor, the famous American composer. “This organisation, composed of from 25 to 75 players, is at present so universal in our cities and larger towns, and taken so much for granted, that we hardly realise what an immense force for artistic good it frequently is. “First of all, it purveys good orchestral music as a mtter of daily routine. The various temples and cathedrals and palaces and what-not of the motion picture scattered in our midst no longer hesitate to play Grieg, Tschaikovsky, Wagner, Liszt, Mozart, and even Brahms and Beethoven, for their patrons.”
It is the movie-house orchestra, I believe, that is going to help us solve the problem of developing our own orchestral players and conductors. Certainly it will solve the problem in so much as it is a purely technical one. The future budding Toscanini or Georges Barrere will be able to cut his artistic teeth as well on Broadway as he could have in Parma or Bordeaux.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 327, 12 April 1928, Page 14
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188CINEMA MUSIC Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 327, 12 April 1928, Page 14
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