Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-25
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 Copyright troubles were discussed by the Incorporated Society of Au- thors.
 MT Bernard Shaw said that though there was not much hope for them in the way of parliament, he would like to see minister of fine arts appoint ed. Any political party hack would do. l The sillier he was the better He did not want a minister who would do anything for the fine arts, but only an Aunt Sally at which he could shy sticks. daughter)
 Sir Rider Haggard protested against any idea of ministry of fine arts, and said if once literature got into the | hands of a ministry anything might 1 happen. They would certainly be ra- toned, and very likely suppressed all together on the slightest preteXt
 The committee of management was urged to send a deputation to the home office in order to press on the government the need for an immedi- 1 ate alteration in the laws of copy right.
 The most overWorked word in the language is. without doubt. "practi- cally." Strictly, it is the antithesis to theoretically; but use has made it a synonym of nearly. almost, not quite and all the similes of indefinite ness.
 Whenever a writer is not quite sure of a statement he qualities it with practically Thus in Lord French s 1914" one reads: "The fighting on September 19 will always remain me- morable to the French because on this day the Germans practically de- stroyed Rheims Cathedral by artillery fire.' At a much later date the fab 1oor writer might describe as practically intact.
 The experience of Mir. Roper, assist ant organist at Westminster Abbey, is that congregations prefer bad music to good
 T agree with everything Sir J. D Mcclure says" he told the Daily
 Chronicle representative "The mos popular hymn music here is invariabll : the worst The congregations hatt new tunes. and if we give an unknown
 version to popular hylmn we ge
 complaints the next day. Last week ;
 lady asked me if we intended to hav'
 For All the Saints atNthe Edith Ca
 we'll memorial service. and she added that if such were the case she hopet
 we would have the familiar tune, l glaring example of bad music and no . the setting of Dr. Vaughan Williams
 which is incomparably the finer music
 "The worst tune in ancient ant t modern" MT. Roper declared, lis Tn @ Vaice of Gods Creation found me
 The valse hymn Pleasant are Tn
 courts above' is another example o
 bad music. Other hymns with tawdr-. settings are:
 "'At Even ere the sun was set
 "Day of wrath
 t "Hark, hark, my soul. first tune. e Fight the good fight
 "We want badly good setting fo q Kiplings Recessional. which we hay
 to sing to the poor tune of 'Eternf
 Father, strong to save I consider tha r Dyke is the chief delinquent an
 should like to see his music abolish
 ed from our hymn book. e "As for the tunes which it is l. pleasure to hear I might mention:
 God Moves in Mysterious Way
 Now Thank We All Our God '. and all the German music; y Thou Who at Thy First Euchari: It didst pray
 t Forth in Thy Name.'
 Goss tune to Praise My Soul, tt
 King of Heaven,'
 e Old Hundredth.'
 s "The old tunes to the Latin hymn 70 such as Vexilla Regis and most of tf 's plain song settings are magnificent
 "The Oxford Hymn Book. the Er