MUSICAL APPRECIATION.
Sir,-I liked the suggestion in Radio Newsreel (December 22) that Station 1ZM give a series on musical appreciation, and I think this is an idea that could be more widely applied. It is all very well for the musical intelligentsia to deplore the taste and deride the listening ability of the masses, but it seems rather similaf to giving an illiterate a copy of Hamlet and blaming him for not appreciating the finer points. For it is admitted that musical appreciation is largely a matter of education; but how many of us (i.e. the masses) . have had the opportunity of acquiring this knowledge? I wonder what proportion of the present adult radio audiences were fortunate enough to have musical appreciation included in their school curriculum. Your commentator mentions the popularity of university and W.E.A. classes in this subject, but not everybody (particularly those in the country) can attend such classes, and this is hardly a subject that can be swotted up by bringing a book home from the library. Therefore if broadcasting stations want as many listeners as possible who can enjoy to the full the programmes put over (I hope I am not overestimating the
object of broadcasting) radio seems an obvious medium for imparting this knowledge; not by offering odd comments here and there, but by giving regular talks starting from first principles on musical appreciation. And I am sure that such a series in admitting its aim was frankly educational would gain more than it would lose. I know there are many adults who listen with interest to any talks on music in the correspondence school and educational sessions which are sumably prepared for children with little or no knowledge of music, and it is along these elementary lines that I would suggest the series for adults should be civen.
M.J.
S.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 291, 19 January 1945, Page 7
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