Show Flood of Cheap Songs Blamed Upon Timidity NEW YORK Dec Dee 8 P l' l Timidity may be responsible for lor the flood of or dance melodies and cheap songs ion c that washes the ears of oC the American public pub pub- lie lic at every turn At least some of or Ernest Hutche- Hutche s sons son's ns n's correspondents believe that the persons who prefer um tunes and hot songs are rewarded with so many of ot them chiefly because they are arc the ones who take the trouble to write their approval when such music Is played Whereas the somewhat more sober audience that likes better belter music either because of timidity or or- orsome some other cause seldom expresses itself and is ignored in large part by those who make up programs d designed for lor general gen gen- eral cral consumption Index of Taste An index x of the musical taste of the American public is contained in a huge hamper of letters from Crom 40 states stales of ot the Union received by Mr Hutcheson Hutche- Hutche son dean of or the Juillard Julliard school of music musie in lii New York and concert pianist plan pian 1st of high rank I Mr Hutcheson finds that with wiLh fewer th than n a dozen exceptions among thousands of letters the writers ask for the best In piano literature The letters are arc from JEom musicians lawyers doctors farmers nurses teachers officers of oti leers and privates of the She army arny and I nav navy housewives merchants piano I tuners tuners even even children The great majority of the letters Mr Hutcheson points out indicate a taste for the classical and romantic music musie of ot the period back to and Including In in including eluding Liszt The average man is not sufficiently educated musically to appreciate so-called so modern music and only a few scattered persons among Mr Hutcheson correspondent correspondents dents dent asked for lor music more advanced than Debussy and As a matter of oC fact the letters actually actu all ally include a number thanking Mr Hutcheson for not playing much ultramodern music Chopin heads the list in popularity with Beethoven Liszt and sohn ohn close behind It is Mr Hutcheson's experience he says that what is wanted is good music that Is not too long and solemn solemn sol and not trashy Among the most popular compositions compositions with Mr Hutcheson's audiences were Beethoven's Moonlight ul Ap and sonatas MacDowell's D minor concerto the sixth and twelfth Hun Hungarian rhapsodies dies and La Campanella by Liszt Grieg's Griess A minor concerto Francks Franck's Symphonic Variations Schumann's A minor concerto and Symphonic Studies the Mendelssohn and Saint Saint- I concertos in G minor and tS' tS the B flat minor con concerto erto |