PUBLIC OPINION.
Contributions, Letters, Inquiries and Answees thereto, arc invited on Farming. Commerce, Politics, and matters of interest to the Patea district. Names of writers need not be Printed. MUSICAL CRITICISM. In reply to the proprietor of an evening paper, I may remove any doubt he may have as to the meaning of my previous hint, by saying that the musical criticism I refer to shows that the writer knows as much about singing as he does about <£ playing ” a clarionette. It requires a player who can do something more than blow and puff out of tune to be ot any use to a musical society. In the same way, a critic censures singers for mistakes they have '■ not committed is presuming too much. He should beep in his proper place, and leave musical criticism to some competent hand. First Violin.
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Patea Mail, 28 August 1882, Page 2
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