THEY'D SOONER HAVE SYMPHONIES
do not crave for musical shows and night clubs in order to relax. They prefer symphony orchestras, operas and recitals. This was established in a recent poll conducted in the United States by Concert programme magazines, which queried 2000 industrialists, business executives, and advertising men’ on their musical: tastes. Twenty per cent replied that they liked all music, 75 per cent preferred classical music, and only 5 per cent put p@pular music at the top of their lists. Eighty per cent of those who responded said they were regular concert business men, it seems,
patrons, and a third said that they either sang or played an instrument themselves. All the singers were baritones, while pianists predominated among the instrumentalists, but there were enough players of other instruments to make up a symphony orchestra. The business men’s favourite singers, in order of popularity, were Kirsten Flagstad, Lawrence ‘Tibbett, Marion Anderson, John Charles Thomas and Kate Smith. Their favourite instrumentalists were Heifetz, Josef Hofmann, Yehudi Menuhin, Walter Gieseking, Fritz Kreisler and Sergei Rachmaninoff. "Tristan and Isolde," proved more popular than "Carmen," "Madame _ Butterfly" or "Aida" and the operettas of Victor Herbert and Gilbert and Sullivan more popular than musical comedies.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 82, 17 January 1941, Page 16
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202THEY'D SOONER HAVE SYMPHONIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 82, 17 January 1941, Page 16
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