taken in France. 'Mr. Robinson and Mr. Baker also showed some of their Colour slides. To round off the term Mr. Baker gave a lecture about "Pictorial Photography". He told the Society some of the ways in which they could improve their photographs, and used prints of his own to illustrate his points. We are indeed indebted to all our lecturers, particularly to Mr. Baker, who gave so much of his time to the affairs of the Society during his short stay at the School. D.A.S.
THE MUSIC SOCIETY MEETING, 20th FEBRUARY, 1954, AT 6-30 P.M. IN BIG HALL PART I. "WHAT I MEAN BY GOOD MUSIC . . ." For this meeting six members of the Committee and six from outside were invited to present individual programmes lasting not more than five minutes each. During the five minutes they were to speak about the music of their choice, justifying its quality, and then to call in the gramophone to illustrate their point. In his introductory remarks 'Mr. Waine recalled the old saying "Tell me what you like, and I will tell you what manner of man you are". J. H. Baines, M. J. Baddeley, J. N. T. Howat, W. R. Ibberson, D. K. Hodd, J. Ford, J. M. Grainger, A. G. D. Staines, M. J. 'McCallum, P. G. Taylor, and J. H. Macdonald spoke. The tastes shown by the speakers were widely varied, ranging from the music of Handel and Tchaikovsky to the very latest in tunes being plugged by the B.B.C. that week. Many speakers took a subjective view of music and admitted that their choice varied with their mood : many connected music with the emotions : but there was no agreement as to whether good music was merely a background to other thoughts or occupations or whether it could be listened to with the whole attention. It was obvious before the end that in the opinion of most of the speakers (but by no means all) good music was synonymous with popular music. The audience endorsed this view by a vote in which 'Hodd's choice, "0 mein Papa" beat Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B flat minor by 30 votes to 27. PART II. "FACADE" BY WILLIAM WALTON For the last '20 minutes Mr. Wicks entertained us with a brilliant performance of the spoken part of certain numbers of Walton's "Facade" with the orchestral part played on gramophone records. In his introductory remarks he showed it for the period piece that it is, and then proceeded to delight us all with the vitality in which he clothed its pungent satirical nonsense. It was a new experience to most of his audience and it was warmly received. 35
