"MUSIC FROM THE THEATRE"
Sir,-We have endured in silence the "Music from the Theatre" series for many months. Is_ it still necessary for beautiful music to be drowned by a stream of fake description? For example, on August 28 "Aurora’s Wedding" was broadcast from 3YA. No mere words can convey the beauty of the actual dancing, but the effect of the running commentary was to make the music, which could have been enjoyed, subsidiary to the commentator’s voice. In its softer passages the music. became / almost inaudible. The statement which was made with mock excitement in the above broadcast, "By Jove! the gentleman is leaping in the air,’ may be appropriate to a football match but not to Russian ballet. ee If a description is wanted, it should be made at the commencement, so that the music, which is the basis of ballet, may be heard and appreciated.-
M.
M.
(Invercargill)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 67, 4 October 1940, Page 4
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151"MUSIC FROM THE THEATRE" New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 67, 4 October 1940, Page 4
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