RADIO VIEWSREEL
Sir,-Your correspondent Alan N. Stewart is to be congratulated on his well-chosen remarks regarding your feature Radio Viewsreel, and I feel that his criticism is justified by the one-sided views expressed therein and the fact that any music that is not classical is seldom commented u ag He may be overlooking a possible reason for such biased comments as far as they concern music. Apparently the enthusiasts for classical music are deeply concerned by the fact that their music does not meet with popular taste, and therefore fee] that to justify these sessions they must continually boost up all that is classical and ridicule whenever possible anything that is not, It is a strange fact that, although that great majority of listeners who prefer jazz, swing, or light popular music, seldom begrudge the highbrow his sessions, the latter is continually trying to deprive them of theirs, and will take every opportunity of thrusting his sonatas, preludes, fifth movements, etc., down the other fellow’s throat. The intolerant attitude of the average classical listener is well known to all but himself, but if further proof is needed then Radio Viewsreel gives us a typical example,
STRICT TEMPO
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 321, 17 August 1945, Page 5
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198RADIO VIEWSREEL New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 321, 17 August 1945, Page 5
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