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PROVIDED that the voices are pleasant, friendly and confident, I like to hear a variety of accents and even of
pronunciations from our announcers, and in harping too much on correct pronunciation of foreign names we may be unnerving them, and aggravating tkeir more common and chilling fault-a tendency to appear indifferent to or unfamiliar with their subject, and to be doing their homework at the microphone. I don’t care whether they say Bruno Walter or Bruno Valter, but I do dislike Bruno-painful pause-Waltef as I heard it the other night not only at the beginning of a concerto, but also at the end, during which long interval the announcer might have done worse than determine the matter by tossing a coin. This always gives me a feeling of cold embarrassment, as if I had myself been discourteous in enjoying a recording that the station is, for some reason, quite ashamed of possessing.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 285, 8 December 1944, Page 8
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155Be Bold New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 285, 8 December 1944, Page 8
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