Burn, Burn!
URDER most foul was committed this week, and at. a respectable station like 4YA, moreover! A two-piano combination battered Sinding’s "Rustle of Spring" and Grieg’s "To the Spring" until both pieces were quite dead; then, they launched boldly into a Grande Polonaise in the Chopin manner, the theme being Sinding’s aforesaid. The second side of the record proved to be "Morning," by Grieg, somewhat more calmly mismanaged. Since the latest in musical comedies is Song of Norway, in which I believe Grieg is treated to much the same sort of indignity as Schubert was in Lilac Time, it will not be long before his: music becomes even more "popular" than it now is. Surely if the BBC has banned "arrangements" of the classics, it is not too much to expect the NBS to do likewise; it would hurt nobody if all such records were quietly removed from the studio shelves, taken to some dark vault, and destroyed.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 297, 2 March 1945, Page 8
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