For Wet Sundays
WET Sunday afternoons (and Auckland has had so many this year) have lost some of their terrofs since the advent of the U.S.A. programmes. With special Americans radio recordings at 3.30 p.m. in place of the former bet-ter-known gramophone recordings, and a similar session from 1ZM at 5.0 p.m., we are for a few hours very well off for. symphonies, concertos and some very interesting oddments. Often it is new music that we would not otherwise hear at all; sometimes it is a new presentation of a work such as Prokofieff’s
"Peter and the Wolf," of which we have formerly heard only one version; and often it is an old favourite in new hands. The gramophone companies can naturally dredge up only a few specimens from the vast reservoir of talent in the States, and it is a treat to hear some people that are new to us. It is good for us, too, for if we happen to hear what we think to be a massacre of a pet symphony, we go back to our favourite recording with newly-opened eyes and better understanding of perfections which we had begun to take a little for granted,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 284, 1 December 1944, Page 9
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199For Wet Sundays New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 284, 1 December 1944, Page 9
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