"SOME RECENT MUSIC"
Sir,-Congratulations on your new feature "Some Recent Music," by "Marsyas"-particularly his comments on song-broadcasts. These may broaden the interest of singers in their art, which is what we all want above everything-to be musicians and not "just singers.’"’ I can add to his examples of poetry "rendered inoffensive" when set to music. I have long been amused by the presentation by some singers of Orlando Gibbons’s "In Going to My Naked Bed," as "going to my LONELY bed." Such is the precious age we live in! I know that old recording of "Adelaide," too: but I disagree about the bated breath of those who "write" about the song. Shouldn’t the word be "wrote?" The Plunket Greene school or earlier? And I think they much over-rated the song, anyway!
P.
N.
(Wellington).
Sir,-It is good to see your new and, I hope regular feature, "Some Recent Music," by Marsyas. I have often thought there is some crying need for a critical appreciation of broadcast music, and I am therefore particularly glad to endorse Marsyas’s remarks on this session, Jn Quiet Mood. Fortunately, I missed the session that aroused him, but I have submitted myself to one or two others in the tortured hope of finding some reason for the distortion of pleasant tunes by presumably responsible musicians, The other night I had the happy experience-all too common with our local stations-of listening to the chiming of Big Ben in the middle of the. last movement of Elgar’s First Symphony. My prayer for better organisation of programmes was not too silent. Even in war-time I find it hard to excuse this sort of thing. A scrutiny of most musical programmes suggests that they are devised merely to fill up two hours here and two hours there, with little or no atremnge made to construct a coherent session.
W.
THOMSON
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 148, 24 April 1942, Page 4
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