GOOD AND BAD MUSIC
Sir,-I sympathise with "Old Bandsman." As one who became at an early age passionately fond of so-called "good" music, I can understand his feeling of futility on calmly surveying what is now generally looked upon as being desirable. Although trembling in awe before his tremendous achievement in associating with bands for "some 40 years," and feeling that such fortitude deserved a more worthy reward, I meekly suggest that the blaring, peeping and hollow bellowings of his beloved bands do little to further the cause of "good" music. Most people are now sensible enough | not to»pretend to like what they do not listen to, and if many derive pleasure from swing and crooning it is advisable to remember that everything is a matter of taste. I understand that the most accurate definition of taste is that "a person of good taste is one who habitually approves of all great works." By the same reasoning it is apparent that "great works" are those which are habitually approved of by persons of good taste. It is, therefore, not reasonable for a worshipper of one variety of noise to condemn the. worshippers other varieties.
HANS
SACHS
(Day’s Bay).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 216, 13 August 1943, Page 3
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198GOOD AND BAD MUSIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 216, 13 August 1943, Page 3
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