Sleepers Awake!
ONE used to be able to sleep for the first half of Sunday afternoon in perfect confidence that one was missing nothing, but as I dialled idly to 1ZM just before 3 o’clock the other week, I heard the last few bars of Bach’s Mass
in B Minor. When I rang the station a courteous American voice told me that the complete recording had been broadcast in two sections on consecutive Sundays, that details of this session were announced at 8.30 p.m. on Thursdays, that they often played long works, that these records had been lent by a kind friend, and that no, he guessed they wouldn’t be playing this work again for a while. As the NBS does not own the complete Mass, this was quite an occasion, though so quietly celebrated. And if you find that you have automatically refused a taste of real Old Scotch offered by a stranger, just because your own household keeps its lemon syrup in a bottle labelled "Old Scotch," you had better join quickly in the laugh against yourself; so nobody laughed louder than our local Bach addicts when they found that they had missed the Mass because it was labelled "Music We Love."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 286, 15 December 1944, Page 8
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204Sleepers Awake! New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 286, 15 December 1944, Page 8
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