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Page Foui High Life February 28, 1964 Music... Greatest Good” Beatlemania Breaks Loose But Beatles Are Defended By Don Bowden The 1800’s progressed rapidly after the death of Beethoven. Conservatories for the advancement of music were set up. These conservatories became music factories, turning out young men at an astonishing rate. The private tutoring, al though stiU flourishing, was overtaken by the music school. At these schools the students ate, breathed, slept, and lived music from the time they got up until the time they went to bed. Everything that pertained to music was taught by the con servatory, save, perhaps, the individual composer’s style. In the 1800’s competition be tween musicians was great and the composer’s style often determined the greatness of a composer. Any real musician can tell, when a piece by a certain composer is played, who wrote it. He can tell this by knowing the style with which a composer writes. A few examples of style are seen in such composers as: Dvorak, Brahms, and Handel (although in Handel’s time, the style was pretty much the same for the composers). The 1800’s also contained an other significant characteristic. The 1800’s opened with nearly all composers in such a state of pov erty that it was hard for them to live. In contrast, the 1800’s closed with nearly every major composer in a state of wellbeing. Compared to such men as Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, composers like Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and Rach maninoff “had it made." The greatest good that this world has ever known, or ever will know, is music. Music, no matter what type the individual likes, is a source of stimulation, emotion, excitement, and pleasure. Bitter arguments and questions have been raised about what kind of music is best. I have stated my firm and unchanging opinion above, but I recognize and under stand the enjoyment that comes from listing and dancing to the music of today. Their wild rythms, and wild vocal parts, are exciting to the average teen-ager. Music, I do not care what kind it is, should have as its main goal a source of excitement and emo tion, Good music is exciting and was and is meant to be that way. Much music, and I am referring mainly to the classics, is so good that a certain piece can cause tears to run from the eyes of an overcome listener. At any rate, the classics are here to stay. No other era of music caused such a terrific out pouring of great music. It is the music of the 1800’s that caused the greatest excitement and stirring of the emotions. It is the music of Beethoven that got the musical era of 1800-1900 off to such an exciting start. Most important of all, the great classics are and will continue to be the source of inspiration for this country’s composers. The composers strive today for per fection in the hopes that they may achieve the lasting impression that the composers of the nineteenth century did. The musical era of 1800-1900 pushes at the back of every composer of the world to day. That era chides this one by telling us that we cannot equal the greatness of that time. I would invite the reader, there fore, to reformulate the ideas that may have entered the mind about the worthlessness of the classics. Many people say that the com posers of that era are dead and gone. Well, that is true. No one can deny that, but the music is what lives after the composer BY BECKY REES Despite what they have learned in history class, many Americans wish they could put a high pro tective tariff on one export from Liverpool, England — that shaggy singing sensation known as The Beatles. Beatles Paul McCartney and George Harrison have just reached their majority, but John Lemmon and Ringo Starr are both 23, old enough to know better. George and Ringo can’t read music, so John and Paul compose the Beatle songs. John and Paul can’t read music either. The outstanding fea ture of their compositions is the steady four-four beat from which the Beatles derive their name. Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, Lord Snowden, Field Mar shall Montgomery, J. Paul Getty (“world’s richest man”), our little sisters, and some of us are num bered among the Beatles’ fans. Their records have sold five mil lion copies in England and two million in the U. S. This amazing success has gone to the Beatles’ pocketbooks, but not to their heads. Even at their Royal Com mand Variety Performance, John maintained sufficient composure to step to the microphone and re quest, “Would people in the cheap, er seats please clap your hands? The rest of you can rattle your jewelry.” The Beatles once made the mis take of admitting that they held a real predilection for jelly babies (jelly beans). As a result it rained jelly babies at all their perform ances. Finally, fed up with jelly babies in more ways than one, Paul shouted to the audience that they vastly preferred peppermint creams and chocolate caramels. Beatle performances in England since that day have been rather sticky affairs. Those who wish to see the Beatle effect on American audiences have only to watch the Ed Sullivan Show. Local signs of Beatlemania in clude two Beatle cuts (one male and one female), the sketch of highheeled pompomed footgear labeled “Beatles’ Boots” on the 4th desk, inner circle of Miss Price’s HE 200, and the great wail of “I Want To Hold Your Hand” rising from 100 car radios in the GHS parking lot. Controversy rages in Greens boro, largely through the medium of the Greensboro Daily News. One Star, N. C., girl who has en joyed several years of piano and voice lessons say fondly that her Beatle records perch in her record collection alongside classical mu sic albums and original cast re cordings of Broadway plays. An irate adult claims that the Beatles have toppled England from her high position in world affairs, and worse, they have made 70%—yes, 70%—of British youth “sexually abnormal.” British parents, how ever, approve of the Beatles’ rela tively wholesome and happy lyrics. One critic summed it up this way: “Their hair is long and shaggy, but well scrubbed.” dies. Remember one thing only: MUSIC IS THE GREATEST GOOD THIS WORLD WILL EVER KNOW, AND THE ONLY THING OF HEAVEN THAT WE HAVE BELOW. The astounding student happily eyeing the microscope slide is Bill Mitchell. The object on the slide is presumably a beetle as BilVs gleeful smile seems to suggest. GO S-T-R-E-T-C-H MEN’S WRANGLER S-T-R-E-T-C-H Jeans Slick, smooth, sure fire winner . . . our stretch Wranglers. Cut from sturdy 10 oz. sanforized coarse weave—^vat dyed blue stretch denim, 75 % cotton, 15% nylon Vaist sizes 27-36. 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