MUSIC WITHOUT WORDS
Sir-On Saturday, September 27, [listeners throughout New Zealand enjoyed a musical treat in the broadcast from 3YA of Bach’s "Peasant Cantata." Will you allow at least one Auckland listener an opportunity to place on record his appreciation of the really memorable performance of the Royal Christchurch Musical Society? I cannot allow the occasion to pass, however, without suggesting that my enjoyment was perhaps partly due to the fact that no announcer intruded into the music at intervals to tell us what the cantata was about. In decided contrast to the good taste of this presentation is the rendering of gtand opera that we have to put up with from the national stations. Can there really be listeners whose enjoyment of II Trovatore, for instance {not my favourite opera, but the last to be heard
from 1YA, on a recent Sunday evening), depends on a New Zealand announcer, telling them every two or three minutes what the story is about? Would it not be much preferable to have a few minutes "story" at the beginning, and then give the opera "straight"? Perhaps other listeners also have views on this
point.
A. K.
TURNER
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 121, 17 October 1941, Unnumbered Page
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196MUSIC WITHOUT WORDS New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 121, 17 October 1941, Unnumbered Page
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