STATION 1ZM
»sir,-ihe handing back of the American station 1ZM prompts me to pass on to your readers information which I think will surprise and interest some of them. Since last April one has been able to hear regularly from 1ZM a session called the "Classical Corner"; and in view of persistent criticism of the American station, and charges that it had given jtself over to Swing, it is fair to point out that this programme has been, in my opinion, better than most of the comparable programmes of the NBS. If I remember rightly, this feature opened with Beethoven’s symphonies. Recently I heard the Bach B Minor Mass, the identical H.M.V. recordings mentioned by one of your correspondents some weeks ago. Numerous other recordings of similar ‘great music very seldom, if ever, heard from my local National stations have been highlights on this programme. This fact, of course, is not entirely the fault of the NBS, since records, as the girl in the music shop says daily, are "almost unobtainable." But I do not wish that the Americans.
when they vacated 1ZM, had taken their swing records with them, leaving their fine classical librarv to New Zea-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 291, 19 January 1945, Page 7
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