SWING AND THE CLASSICS.
Sir-To say that swing, jazz and crooners are all bunk just because one doesn’t approve of them is an indication of a high degree of intolerance. Personally I don’t like classical music, but because I don’t like it I don’t regard it as so much bunk. Let Mr. Lawrence see a physiologist and he will be informed that phrenology is discounted by a large majority of physiologists as so much hooey, and that the shapes of heads and the bumps thereon give no indication of the amount of intelligence inside. Concerning his remark about swing musicians standing up in groups and blaring forth discordantly, I have seen the same thing done by brass sections of classical orchestras and heard a terrific deafening clash of cymbals. SWING FAN (Raetihi).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 304, 20 April 1945, Page 5
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132SWING AND THE CLASSICS. New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 304, 20 April 1945, Page 5
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