N.Z. BROADCASTS
visitor's Views
PROGRAMMES CRITICISE!
Not a very high opinion of broadcasting services in New Zealand Has been formed by Dr. Jamei Lyon, visiting examiner in music and elocution for Trinity College, London,. state* theChristchurch "Press." Dr. Lyon admitted that he had had no'very wide experience of broadcast programmes in the Dominion, and-that any unqualified criticisms would be hardly fair to the New Zealand Broadcasting Board, but be said that as far as he could judge the board was catering for rather a low type of mentality. "If the people of. New Zealand wish to hear programmes such as those I have heard, then I-am afraid I don't agree with them," said Dr. Lyon.
Dr. Lyon outlined a type of programma provided in England, in which, the worki of a standard composer were dealt with serially, extending over % period of perhaps a month. The pro* grammes would be accompanied by talks which aimed at bringing listeners to understand the musio and to arrive at a real appreciation of it. He asked whether any such systematic presentation of the best musio was attempted in New Zealand. ' On being told that this was not the case, he said that a similar plan might well be adopted by the Broadcasting Board. The works of a composer such as Mozart should be presented over a period of a month, with explanatory notes. The aim of providing music over the air had to be educative, and merely to attempt to please was entirely the wrong principle. There should be an.attempt to convey the meaning of music and the real art at the back of it all. The public should be given some idea of now to understand the wonderful musia which was being played to them. \ "Broadcasting is a very wonderful thing," said Dr. Lyon, "but some of the uses which are made of it are quite another proposition. It is still more or less in its infancy, and at present the individuality of many of the performers is lost when they are broadcast. But during my stay in New Zealand I have been so charged with the hospitality I have received that I have forgotten all about the goodness or badness of New Zealand broadcasting." '
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 128, 27 November 1934, Page 7
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372N.Z. BROADCASTS Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 128, 27 November 1934, Page 7
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