Classical Requests
| VE been wondering lately if the YA Stations would include a Classical Request Session in their programmes, say once a week. The ZBs have their request session, of course, and the stock answer to the question why they include so much rubbish is that nobody asks for anything else; if they had enough requests for it, they would play good music, but the listeners want popular stuff. But although lovers of the classics are in such a minority I can’t agree that they needn’t be considered. If a station gets 50 requests for Vera Lynn and only five for Yehudi Menuhin, must the sessions contain ten times as much mush as music? The jazz addict won’t mind listening to one classical item in ten jazz ones, but the classical musician isn’t going to listen to nine popular hits in the hope of hearing one item which he enjoys. So he refrains altégether from writing for request items, thus giving the impression that he and his friends are an apathetic minority. Couldn’t one of the national stations attempt to disprove this by holding request sessions for, say, a month or so?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 309, 25 May 1945, Page 8
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192Classical Requests New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 309, 25 May 1945, Page 8
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