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OMPETITION festivals have been in the air again. So much do they figure in the musical lives of many students that the mere mention of "comps" immediately kindles a light-TI hesitate to call it the light of battle-in their eyes. The musical value of competition festivals is questionable. Although it has often been advocated in their favour that many musicians who afterwards achieved fame saw the light of their musical day as competition-winners, it must be admitted that there are as many more who have contributed much to music who were in their youth among the unsuccessful or who were unmoved to compete at all. The value of competitions depends wholly on the spirit in which the performer competes and in which the adjudicator listens. The placing of the winners is of small importance compared with the creation of musical goodwill, leading to better standards of taste and performance. A competitor who imagines that "first" is necessarily synonymous with "excellent" or a judge whose sympathy extends to extravagant unqualified praise are both doing harm to the cause of music. The spirit of competition in some form or other is in the blood of all healthy young citizens. If it extends to music it is good only if sublimated to the greater enjoyment of | the art.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 378, 20 September 1946, Page 14
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218First, Second, Third New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 378, 20 September 1946, Page 14
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