DE PROFUNDIS
Sir-In your issue of March 28 you published a letter by F. N. Taylor, part of which so irritated me that I cannot but defend one of my favourite works. I also heard Paganini’s violin concerto from 3YA on March 3, and dare confess to having heard it on several occasions of late. If the criticism advanced by your correspondent has any merit, it is only because the composer developed his themes to such length that by repetition they tend.to become monotonous. The "snippet of Haydn’s ‘Clock’ Symphony" was also from 3YA, if I remember rightly. It appears strange to me that it should be " the only bit of highclass music ... this afternoon." I assume that "highclass" includes that formal accuracy and melodic content which constitutes not the least charm of classical-hour music; and fail to see where "Clock" Symphony and Ist and 3rd movements of Paganini’s Concerto have not these two things in common. Had your venerable correspondent lived a century ago, I believe he also would have cried out that
Paganini had sold his soul to the devil!--
A. S.
RAE
(Klondyke, Ashburton).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 96, 24 April 1941, Page 4
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187DE PROFUNDIS New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 96, 24 April 1941, Page 4
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