MUSIC IN RUSSIA
Sir,-Perhaps readers of The Listener would be interested in a paragraph I read in a recent English weekly: "Recently a symphony concert was broadcast from Leningrad to Britain. A quarter of an hour before the concert was due to start not a single musician had arrived at the studio and the radio engineers; began to get worried. The musicians arrived ten minutes before the concert was timed to begin, placed their tin helmets in a pile, and took their Seats. Several minutes later Britain heard a masterly performance of Tchaikovski’s Fifth Symphony. The point is that every single member of the orchestra does civil defence. Only fifteen minutes before the beginning of the concert they had been putting out fire bombs. If the concert had been televised the English people would have seen that one of the musicians had a bandage round his head. He had been wounded by bomb shrapnel a few minutes before. No one listening to the excellent performance would have thought that these were volunteer firemen who had just taken off their helmets."
J.T.
P.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 4
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183MUSIC IN RUSSIA New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 4
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