Cultivating Fashionable Musical Fad

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 34, 1 March 1935, Page 50

Cultivating Fashionable Musical Fad

To the Editor Sir,-It would seem to me that before rushing into print with scathing comments on the mentality of all those who enjoy the programmes of light music, comprised chiefly of jazz and crooning, some correspondents should stop and consider music in general. Music, as I understand it, is a mingling of notes and noises which, as a rule, react pleasantly on some chord in the mind of the listener. No doubt all of us at some time or other have heard Japanese or Chinese music and passed it off with comment after the style of "what an unearthly din." Yet the millions of people of those nationalities listen to it with as much appreciation as we do.with ours. While there are thousands of listeners who can and do appreciate "classical music," there are a large number who profess to do so, who are merely eultivating it as a fad in order to appear fashionable.| The overwhelming majority in favour of the music of the "silly piffle"’ class would seem to indicate that it is more natural to be-able to enjoy this type. Our system of trial by jury coneedes the point that the:opinion of many is superior and less likely to mistake than that of one.-I am, ete, "LOVER OF PIFFLE." Hamilton.