New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC AND ART
Ne1u Musical Periodicals

The end Of the war in England brings
musical productions. "The Sackbut,"
THE Musician" editor, Henry Coates),
end "The Chesterian" editor, Jean
Aubry). Robin H. Tegge, Of 'The Lon
don Daily Telegraph" thinks that
"The Sackbut" will be very new" and
very critical" "The Musician" sound
and moderate and full Of news, "The
Chesterian" cosmopolitan, with
stronger penchant for aesthetics than
for actual news in the conventional
sense of the term.
Speaking generally on the subject Of
musical periodicals, Mr.. Tegge gees
on to say:
II have said that The Musician will
probably be run on lines Of sensible
moderation, by which I mean that it
will not feel it necessary to knock
something down in order to raise
something else the higher. There has
been a good deal of that kind Of thing
in my career in the musical world and
it has invariably come to grief, surely
for an obvious reason. There was a
Musician some quarter of a century
ago, which in its brief existence dis
covered probably more writers on mu-
steal subjects-several of them men
of real moment to-day-than ANY
similar publication before or since.
1t may be that the new magazine may
be somewhat similar. but twenty five
years younger in idea. But what Of
The Ssckbut'? / am not sure that it
has any ancestry SO to speak, If the
syllabus recently issued really holds
up the mirror to its countenance. We
had The Chord at one time, brilliant
little affair that deserved far better
fate than to die young; it was, think,
three years old at its decease, and had
been produced quarterly. Then, long
ago, Granville Bantock and. on his
setting forth on his travels round the
world, William Wallace, produced a
delightful magazine called The New
Quarterly Musical Review which now,
probably, would be voted dull, but then
was characteristic of it's period. But
neither of these bore any resemblance
in their substance to the shadow of
The Sackbut' as cast before by the
syllabus. I take it that the editor, so
far as l know, to me quite unknown, is
young man because it is only when one
is young that one is bold enough to at
tempt to put the world to rights.
"'It is common knowledge says Mr..
Unknown, that the average newspaper
critic of music in this country is either
some shipwrecked or WORKOUT must
clan, or else journalist too incompe-
tent for ordinary reporting, who is per-
mitted to air his personal opinions
and to indulge in anecdotes and judg-
ments which interest no one but the
persons to whom they refer. Now, if
this is the shadow of the coming event,
it is new neither in substance nor in
fact; and even if it were, how is the
poor shipwrecked critic to realize that
Mr.. Unknown is not in even a worse
case than himself? 1t is precisely the
kind of nonsense many of US used to
write q generation and a half ago, when
the bugbears of that period were STAN
ford and Parry, Mackenzie and Cowen
and especially Corder Though his
caustic pen usually made mincemeat of
his critics, if l may be forgiven the
mixed metaphorD. 1t is just the su-
perfcial nonsense that all the critica
alumni of the school founded by tbs
greatest professional critic we evel
had, Arthur tombstone, of Manchester
initiated"
All that Mr.. Tegge asks Of the new
journals is: "That they give US VIVA
we, a thirsty musical world, are askin
for, good, sound, authoritative criti