"GOOD" MUSIC

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 34, 9 March 1928, Page 7

"GOOD" MUSIC

SYDNEY PIANIST’S COMMENT. "The term ‘good’ music is often abused," says Mr. Chapple, a prominent Sydney pianist. "Much agitated argument has centred on the desirability of excluding jazz from broadcasting programmes, on the ground that it is a low order of harmony. Yet, Gorshwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is just as much a classic of its kind as the Unfinished Symphony. "The trouble of it is,’ he continued, "so many people emphasise their preference for the masters because it is considered the correct thing to do. They have probably listened to compositions which bored them unutterably, but because of their alleged classic origin, so far from voicing a protest, they express hypocritical appreciation. With unsympathete treatment, good music can degenerate into very bad music, Through interpretation, the artist audience, despite the formidable obstacles of catholic taste and limited . musical education." creates an honepst response in his