Old-time Musical Evenings

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 27, 16 January 1931, Page 31

Old-time Musical Evenings

D eed Popularity ‘Returning — Witt long frocks and long hair, once more in fashion it.would appear that also the diversions of our grand-parents are-returning to favour. I refer to the resurrection of the oncepopular "musical evening," . which will doubtless have all the of novelty for the present generation. Bridge-bored ‘youngsters, already somewhat satéd with the mysteries of wireless and the mechanical precision of the gramophone, are clustering round the old piano singing glees, roundelays, and sea chanties. . Possibly this revival of the musical evening will produce a new type of drawingroom song, Suitable for afterdinner singing, and more: attuned to modern fancy than, the. simple ditties of the Victorian age.