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Paul Hume Says Musicians Make Best Music Critics
The Washington Post music critic target of former President Harry Truman told an audience of music and journalism students yesterday that unless a writer is a music student or a musician, he isn't qualified to write a music review.
By Rael Amos
Following applause by the music students in the audience, Paul Hume (who was the object of a heated letter from President Truman after Mr. Hume criticized a musical performance of Margaret Truman) said:
"On the Washington Post I don't care what happens after my review leaves my typewriter—as long as they don't cut it. Music reviews have to be written by musicians. This is
the first prerequisite of a music critic.
"But it should be remembered," he continued, "that a music review is first of all one man's opinion. It should be regarded as nothing more by anyone."
Holding up a clipping of a music review he wrote for the Post, Mr. Hume noted some criticisms written on it by an anonymous reader.
"This reader complained that music critics borrow language from the other arts. He has circled five words out of this review and takes exception to them."
The words were: canvas (the reader said was a painter's term); couched (a writer's term); illus- tious (an adjective for light—not
Khrushchev Discloses Downing of U.S. Plane
MOSCOW—(UFI)—Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today that Soviet forces early Sunday shot down an American plane which he claimed was sent over the Soviet Union to "impress and frighten" Russia on the eve of the summit conference. He said this meant there now was "little hope" for success at the summit.
In a voice filled with bitterness Khrushchev accused the United States of aggressive actions along the border and warned: "They are playing with fire and they could also suffer retaliatory blows." He boasted then of Soviet rocket strength.
Khrushchev looked directly at U.S. ambassador Liewell Thompson during his speech before the Supreme Soviet. Members of Parliament sat in silence, then jumped to their feet and roared:
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"I'm left both hamstrung and tongue-tied. Language should be as non-technical as possible and still adequately describe the music that was played," Mr. Hume said. "But how can you write about new music without using a minimum of technical language?"
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"Down with the aggressor! This is banditry!"
Khrushchev did not identify the type of plane and did not disclose the fate of any Americans aboard. But he said another American plane violated Soviet territory on April 9 and escaped.
(A Lockheed U-2 high altitude weather reconnaissance plane of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) disappeared over southeastern Turkey this weekend with one man aboard. The unarmed research craft was 60 miles from the Iranian border and 100 miles from Soviet Azerbaijan when last heard of. An accompanying plane returned safely.)
He said an important function of a music critic is that of improving the public taste.
(This was in the same area where the United States accused the Soviets of shooting down an unarmed Air Force transport in 1958 with the loss of 17 lives. Russia denied the charges and said the plane crashed inside Russia. It returned six bodies.)
Khrushchev's announcement followed a major shakeup in the Soviet government. Younger men moved into high government party posts and Frol Kozlov left his government post as first deputy premier to take a higher and more important post in the Communist party heirarchy.
"The public tastes are so compounded today. Unlike some, I'm delighted about the amount of music we have. There is more than ever before. From the White House to popular records, the public taste is in a precarious position," he said.
Mr. Hume noted a music critic has two functions: first, the technical means of writing the review and, secondly, the artistic side of understanding what he is reviewing.
"The second function is by far the most important and the most intangible," he said. "The review should inform, instruct and needle the people all for the purpose of directing the public taste to a better level."
Mr. Hume expressed a strong disapproval of the popular recordings being released of religious songs. He said he thinks the present recording of Andy Williams" "The Village of Saint Bernadette" is "...more immoral than payola."
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"The most important function of the music critic is to encourage the public to hear music they haven't heard before," he said.
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