Raymond Gram Swing— Musician
OW many, listeners know that America’s best-known broadcaster, Raymond Gram Swing, is a trained musician? Although Swing by name, he is not swing by nature (when it comes to music), because a sonata of his for violin and piano was recently performed at a concert of contemporary works presented in New York by the Composers’ Forum. Mr. Swing says that although he is a "rank amateur,"-music has been a part of his life as long as he can remember; he turned to journalism rather than to music in order. to make a living, but he has never given up his active participation in the art. His son is at Harvard, preparing for a musical career. Mr. Swing is emphatic in his view that the future of music "lies in the hands of the rank-and-file amateur rather than of the professional." He regrets that so many promising, young people give up their study of music just when they ought tq be going ahead with it. If this state of affairs can be remedied, then Mr. Swing’s prophecy about the rank-and-file amateurs deciding the ultimate destiny of music might be fulfilled. ~
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 176, 6 November 1942, Page 5
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193Raymond Gram Swing— Musician New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 176, 6 November 1942, Page 5
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