SING AS WE GO
ZB Stations To Broadcast Community Singing Films
of Canterbury said that "at a time of anxiety, music can lift us above troubles that beset us." This might explain the value of Community Singing which seems to have originated during the Great War of 1914-18, There is undoubtedly a great fascination to be found in singing the old and the new songs en masse. For one thing, the deficiencies of the individual voices become lost in the heartiness of the combined vocal efforts, and for another, community songs are generally selected for their lilt, their sentiment and their humour rather than for their musical quality. The large audiences which Community Sings generally attract are proof of their I: a recent statement, the Archbishop
consistent popularity, and it is this obvious natural desire to "sing as we go" that has led the Commercial Broadcasting Service, in association with Columbia Pictures, Pty., Ltd., to give to ZB listeners a novel series of community singing films. Some of these have already been screened at local theatres, but the new ones will be heard in the broadcast series which will begin at all ZB Stations on Saturday, November 4, at 6.30 p.m. Thereafter, they will play every Saturday at this time. Each of these films has a separate character; for example, one comprises the popular Strauss songs, another the well-known Hill-Billy melodies; still another has a Hawaiian flavour.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 19, 3 November 1939, Page 51
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237SING AS WE GO New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 19, 3 November 1939, Page 51
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