DEUS EX PIANO.
Sir;-In your issue of June 26, L. D. Austin surrenders his claim to be a competent newspaper correspondent (far less a musical critic) by the ridiculous attack he makes on "Marsyas" for the latter’s statement that he was not fond of Chopin. "Marsyas," setting aside his personal feelings in a way which your correspondent seems temperamentally incapable of doing, was making a plea for -more Chopin on the air. If Mr. Austin were as concerned with the welfare of his particular personal deity as he is to attack and discredit The Listener’s critic he would have seconded "Marsyas’s" appeal . while regretting his personal taste. "Marsyas’s" personal dislike-and that may be too strong a word-of Chopin in no way invalidates his worth as a critic. The Pole wrote little outside the range of the piano and the piano is by no means the alpha and omega of music, And as for "Marsyas’s" choice of a pen-name, it suggests a humility of spirit which your correspondent might profitably imitate.
CHIASMUS
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 160, 17 July 1942, Page 3
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172DEUS EX PIANO. New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 160, 17 July 1942, Page 3
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