CLASSICAL MUSIC.
Sir-What right has "Arco" to cali jazz, swing, crooners, and serials, tripe? | They may be tripe in his opinion, but he has a nerve to use this more-or-less vulgar term after himself admitting that this is the most popular type of music. I would also like to know why your correspondent is complaining about certain classical programmes being replaced by very much lighter, and more popular, music. Surely his receiving set is capable of getting more stations than just 3YA and 3YL. A survey of programmes in The Listener will show that each evening from at least one station comes a session of Classical Music, of Symphonic Music, of Chamber Music or of other such types of music which "Arco" seems to delight in. — ' It is no use attacking programme organisers. They have their job to do and they must give each type of music
a fair trial. Too much of one and not enough of another would result in alimiost a riot. "Arco" says also that without classics we can have no progress. What rot! If this correspondent is going to stand by this statement all that I can say is that he is one or two centuries
after his time.
LEVEL WITH THE
TIMES
(Riversdale).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 296, 23 February 1945, Page 5
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209CLASSICAL MUSIC. New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 296, 23 February 1945, Page 5
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