ARE MUSICIANS NORMAL
Sir,-I cannot let pass the somewhat virulent attack made by your correspondent, J. C. Beaglehole, on an entire profession. I have known and worked with a large number of professional musicians both in New Zealand and elsewhere, finding the majority of them to be normal, kindly people, possessed of no more than their average share of the vices J. C. Beaglehole so lavishly attributes to them; perhaps more highly strung than is usual, but this is to be expected. Apparently your correspondent has been less fortunate in the ones he has met; but this does not justify such an intolerant outburst which seems to be ‘as much out of proportion to his subject as the eruption of a volcano following a pin prick.
FRANCIS BATE
(Christchurch),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 185, 8 January 1943, Page 3
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129ARE MUSICIANS NORMAL New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 185, 8 January 1943, Page 3
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