What Is A Holiday?
HE trouble about classical music is that, although comparatively few want it, those few want it very badly indeed; for them listening is not a conscious effort towards "culture" but a daily necessity, whether they wear city or sun suits. In the last few years long hours at the office have taken from many their opportunities not only of participation in music but also of regular listening, and as I studied the Auckland programmes for the Christmas and New Year week-ends, I saw that this had been forgotten. A bookworm friend who has had time lately only for a few periodicals and an occasional Agatha Christie, dropped in yesterday to bor-
tow War and Peace. "At last I shall have time," she said. (To her musical counterpart 3YL is playing the Choral Symphony on December 30.) Another over-worked neighbour lovingly stuffed his haversack with Thackeray, and I reflected how independent are they who take their classics in literary form-a few shillings or a friend’s bookshelf will supply their needs. But Auckland musiclovers are finding, not for the first time, that the fine flow of classical music ceases abruptly the moment leisure comes, and although our gales have given way at long last to glorious summer, there is in our hearts a little winter of discontent.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 289, 5 January 1945, Page 6
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219What Is A Holiday? New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 289, 5 January 1945, Page 6
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