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Show Creators of New Music Go to Masters for Aid, Dip Batons Into Colors Of Old Melody, Says Leader New York City The American clubwoman who carries her season subscription to the opera around in her handbag so that she can display it at meetings of the Ladies Civic Uplift Club, but purses pur-ses her lip and airily waves aside populai American music as beneath be-neath her cultural notice, unwittingly unwit-tingly displays a real ignorance and lack of appreciation of that same "refined" music which she so publicly endorses. This is the opinion of William Scotti, famous Italian musician and director of the orchestra at Lido Beach, Long Island, America's Ameri-ca's most exclusive playground. "Modern American music is a new art, and the musician-artist must, figuratively, dip hia baton 1 into the colors of the old masters when he tries to produce something some-thing worthwhile in this field," says the maestro. "Much that is worthwhile is being produced, as these club ladies could learn if they ! would only tip their noses down Jand listen with tV --xs as God intended they f ' Scotti, who has done much to j interpret our modern music in accordance with his understanding of the old masters, advocates a grounding in the harmony and technique of the great men of music mu-sic for the musicians who would create living music for our own time. "I -would catch the talented youngster at the earliest possible age and ship him abroad to become acquainted with the countries of great masters," he declares. "I would let him study in the same environment in which they received re-ceived their inspiration. Then I would bring him home and let him see how America is the Melting Pot of all these countries. After that, he would be well prepared to create through the medium of this new American music. "Many of our new dance tune are perfect examples of American music. 'The Same Thing Over Again' a fox trot song sung in Ina Claira's R.K.O. picture,- 'Rebound,' 'Re-bound,' has the new lilt necessary for musical pictures and the perfect per-fect dance tempo. - - j "The student of classical muile 'l would do well to scan songs like this which meet the demands made on American music." - |