Night Light
HAPPY misprint in The Listener promised us "A Little Light Music" by Mozart from 1YX, and of course it was none other than our old friend "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik." It looks strange to us, though it probably would not have done so to Mozart. For, as Matyas Seiber pointed out recently in a BBC talk, we have not only put light and serious music into separate compartments, but we seem to have "light" composets and "serious" composers, belonging apparently to two different species of human beings. Yet Mozart, like Bach and Haydn, wrote for a community that expected its daily occasions to be graced with new compositions; for weddings, funerals, straight out concerts, and conversaziones, music poured out with the ink scarcely dry before its performance, and the workmanship was as good for one kind of music as for another. We have sheltered our modern "serious" composers from this daily grind; they are long in labour, and we hang about waiting for progress reports. If, when their wonder children are born, we sometimes can’t make head or tail of them, it is perhaps because we have let the composers lose touch with our everyday musical needs, and give ourselves too little practice in listening to new music.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 308, 18 May 1945, Page 14
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209Night Light New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 308, 18 May 1945, Page 14
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