Show An Annie n i e Moved Away Awa y Lea Leaving vi n g Teacher With With Indigo Blues Blues' Giles 7 ants Grass Shack in Hawaii to G Get t Away From Crooners Professor Thomas Giles or of the University or of Utah music school had those deep Indigo blues Wednesday Wednes- Wednes day because AnnIe doesn't live here bere any more Its It's not Annie herself the professor sor explained but the composers of that and other popular songs who make him wish he lived Jived in a little grass shack back in Hawaii Ha- Ha wail tar far from radios Bing Crosby Rudy Vallee and other crooners The esoteric love themes and the suggestive wording of modern jazz lyrics the professor complained Wednesday are lowering the moral outlook of the younger generation Its It's bad enough he declared when song writers begin making love Jove over somebody else's shoulder and lamenting the fickleness of that gal Sal nn an old pal from Cal Cal but when they extol the charm of some nasty man Its It's time somebody takes no- no tice The immoral wordIng or of these song poems Professor Giles said has a tendency to destroy the sense ot of propriety In young oung people There Proto Prof Thomas Giles is a place for jazz but none for the or Educator Says Jazz Lyrics Are Arc Lowering Moral Outlook Outlook Out Out- look of Young People phrases put to music in the popular songs of today Particularly distasteful to the professor professor pro pro- fessor are song titles such as Keep on doln doin what youre you're doin cause I love Jove what youre you're doln doin to me My dog loves your dog U good for the goose is good for the gander and kindred phrases Composers often lIft whole passages passages pas pas- sages from the works of Beethoven Bach and other immortals Professor ProCessor sor Giles pointed out Why cant can't lyricists plagiarize from the works of Shelley Keats and other master poets he asked He recalled that the currently popular song Wagon Wheels is based on the Largo from Dvorak's New World Symphony and that PIa Play Fiddle PIn Play comes almost unchanged except for lor tempo from Brahms Brahms' second symphony I have no quarrel with composers for tor stealing the classics for modern popular songs the professor ex- ex In doing so they are ele- ele their compositions Through this practice the public may be educated educated edu- edu to a better apprecIation or of the masterpieces themselves |