Town Hall concert charges. New tax on music.

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Title Town Hall concert charges. New tax on music.
Abstract/Description It is not too much to say that the proposed increase in the rent to be charged for all great concert entertainments at the Town Hall is viewed with a feeling akin to dismay by the musical community. Some months back the city fathers, whose present attitude towards the divine art is the reverse of paternal, decided to cancel the customary reduction in rent made to the three great societies of which Sydney as a whole is so justly proud. There was no sufficient reason given for this retrograde stop beyond the empty excuse that it was not fairly possible to make any distinction between one citizen or body of citizens and another-an argument equivalent to a denial of the educational advantages offered In the performance of the best music by the three voluntary associations in question (Philharmonic, Amateur Orchestral, and Liedertafel), as compared with the dubious benefits of the ordinary miscellaneous entertainment.
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Source Sydney Morning Herald, Charles Kemp and John Fairfax, Sydney, NSW, 1842
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Date Issued 15 July 1904
Language English
Citation Town Hall concert charges. New tax on music., Sydney Morning Herald, 15 July 1904, 3
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Resource Identifier 64997