MORE WAGNER, PLEASE!
To the Editor, "The Listener" Dear Sir,-I’m not writing these lines to complain about yodellers, crooners or swing; I don’t really care what you put on the air, or whether your baritones sing of legs and the woman or arms and the man-my request is for only one thing: Please put a little more Wagner on, I like to have Richard on tap. Some people, I know, wish he’d never been born, but I’m not that kind of a chap. My wife hates " Tanthhauser," and "Tristan" annoys her, but I love the noise and the blaring, and surely some others must feel much the same, so why not give Wagner an airing?
It’s true, I can listen to Brahms and BeethovenThey have rhythm and substance and colour-I’m surely not fussy, I quite like Debussy, Mozart, Cesar Franck or Fats Waller. But I must say I like some red blood in my meat, so kindly attend when I holler: Please put a little more Wagner on, I like to have Richard on call. It may not be loyal to love him so much, but can I be blamed if I fall? I know he’s a German, like Adolf and Hermann, and may have been morally rotten but, please, for the sake of all listeners like me, keep Wagner from being verboten! Yours, etc.,
IRIDEUS
Auckland, January 9, 1940.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 31, 26 January 1940, Page 12
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230MORE WAGNER, PLEASE! New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 31, 26 January 1940, Page 12
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