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Show Killing The Musical Goose Petrillo, musical czar of the musicians' union, will can canned can-ned music after December 31. This sap should be canned. It might be done by investigating his income tax returns as a starter. start-er. Perhaps he can be made to dance a lively step. Petrillo has no musical ability other than a mouth organ (his own) a harmonica, Jews harp, and tambourine being his speed. Petrillo should take a little time off and think before he kills the goose that lays the golden egg. The income from records to the performers must be considerable; consider-able; but apart from that, any musician knows that the true appreciation and enjoyment of music comes, only after repeated hearings, from the accurate recollection recol-lection of what has gone before, the knowledge of what is to follow, fol-low, and of the immediate phrase that is being heard. When every boy in the street whistles a melody mel-ody from an opera or a great symphony, the familiarity that breeds love is going to cause the people who have learned to know music through recordings and radio to go to the concert hall to hear the actual music. Only for the aged and infirm and those in the outlying rural districts will records take the place of concerts. In every other case they are a tremendous stimulus stim-ulus to the interest in concerts and opera. Is it possible that Petrillo Pe-trillo has not noticed the number of towns all over the . country which are developing great symphony sym-phony orchestras, and the music festivals for which it is almost impossible to get tickets, so great is the demand? Wake up, Petrillo, or the musicians mus-icians will get someone better fitted to represent their own interests, in-terests, as well as those of the public. |