GOOD AND BAD IN MUSIC
Sir,-"Cornstalk" argues that swing is good because the bulk of listeners’ requests are for this thing; as though the public were the judges of musical interpretation. As a bandsman of some 40 years in military bands, orchestras, etc., I would resent the public being the adjudicators at a band contest. The greater part of the public are not conversant with the science of music, and in consequence, are not qualified to judge it. Again, look what a hideous thing crooners and jazz fiends make of that God-given emotion we know as "love." Instead of a noble, divine thing in their hands, it becomes a slimy, sloppy, silly farce. Again, when they distort extracts from the works of the masters is not that an insult to those blessed people? Also, I recall that line which says that "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever." Since the classics survive as they do, surely they must be beautiful? And does a prodigy aspire to become anything but a Menuhin, a Paderewski, or a Caruso?
OLD BANDSMAN
(Napier).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 213, 23 July 1943, Page 3
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181GOOD AND BAD IN MUSIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 213, 23 July 1943, Page 3
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