MUSIC LOVERS
Sir,-Music originally meant a series of beautiful sounds combined in melodic and harmonic form to delight the ears of those who loved cultural art. Through: the centuries, music developed to a high standard maintained by generations of brilliant composers. Then came the 1914-1918 debacle when the world went mad. After the orgy of killing had ceased, most of the survivors remained mad, and set to work to destroy and distort all that was beautiful in music, art and literature, A generation grew up knowing little of beauty, accustomed! to hearing the hideous screeching and wailing of jazz, revived from the savage past, and culminating in the present world chaos. Did not Voltaire once remark that if most of the stars were planets inhabited by wise people, then this earth had most assuredly been reserved for the habitation of fools? There are still people who love beautiful music, but the fact that they have to go back to the great masters of past centuries to find it, shows very conclusively how little the modern mind has progressed. Perhaps the world will some day return to sanity, and then we may hope that beautiful music will be re- stored to its rightful place,
C.M.
L.
(Christchurch),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 201, 30 April 1943, Page 3
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206MUSIC LOVERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 201, 30 April 1943, Page 3
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