PLAYERS OR STRINGS.
Sir,-Your correspondent "D.N.S." asks why items by the NBS String Orchestra are announced as played "by the Strings of the NBS Orchestra." May I venture to reply? The full NBS Symphony Orchestra which appears from time to time in our excellent programmes, following a musical tradition of some three hundred years’ standing, consists of (1) String Section (violins, violas, ’cellos, and double bass), (2) a Woodwind Section (oboes, clarinets, flutes, etc.), (3) a Brass Section (trumpets, horns, etc.); and (4) Percussion Instruments. However, for compositions for strings, the woodwind, brass and percussion sections are not required-hence the announcements "the Strings of the NBS Orchestra." Actually, I have heard recordin.3; by "the Strings of the BBC Scottish Orchestra," which is another case in point. I would like, incidentally, to offer a word of congratulation to the NBS for its work in improving our local orchestras over the last eight years or so. They are now, under favourable conditions, almost up to recording standard.
WARREN GREEN
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 157, 26 June 1942, Unnumbered Page
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