MODERN AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC
Sir-I was most interested to see, in a recent interview in The Listener with the NBS official who superintends the swing library, that he hopes some time to be able to present a session of what may be called "experimental" work. There is much music being composed to-day which falls into this category.
Some of it, of course, is largely frivolous, and the Jewish jazz which is ground out in Tin Pan Alley hardly can be classed as experimental. But there are people like Bartok, Schonberg, Ellington, Delius (and much of Percy Grainger) who are definitely serious and worthwhile. One cannot say whether they will stand the test of time, but currently they are important. Is it too much to hope that there will some day be a programme from some of the NBS stations regularly devoted to this type of music? I am sure it would have a large following. I shall keep listening hopefully to the auxiliary stations.
MODERNIST
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 132, 2 January 1942, Page 4
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166MODERN AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 132, 2 January 1942, Page 4
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