AN INTERRUPTED SYMPHONY
Sir,-May I use your space to protest against the interruption from 4YA on Thursday evening (January 20) of Dvorak’s 2nd Symphony in D Minor? This work, the finest of Dvorak’s symphonies, is all too rarely put over the air, and it must have been a great disappointment to all listeners to classical music in this district who watch your programmes when the work was cut short at the opening of the fourth movement in order to give bowling tournament results. If it was really necessary to give these results promptly at 10.0 p.m. rather than 10 or 15 minutes later, surely a little foresight on the part of the programme organiser should have shown the impossibility of playing a 40minute work in under 35 minutes. Though listeners to classical ‘music may be a small minority in New Zealand, nevertheless they form one of the most serious listening groups here; and as such are entitled to more consideration than they receive on occasions. When a major work is advertised in The Listener to be played at a certain time, no interrup= tion should be allowed.
C.L.
S.
(Dunedin,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 244, 25 February 1944, Page 3
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190AN INTERRUPTED SYMPHONY New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 244, 25 February 1944, Page 3
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