Listen to the Band
YMPHONY, chamber music, or salon orchestra; whatever your taste, you will find a familiar note among the others of these types, for the difference between them is chiefly, whatever the purists may say, one of degree. But when you come to band programmes you are in a different world altogether. The bandsman on the march is a noble fellow; he adds lustre to any parade, On the concert platform or in a broadcast programme he becomes a different man altogether;
his stature shrinks and half his glory is gone. The band programme is unique. It may start, as a gesture to convention, with an overture, but after that there is no forecasting the course it may take. The "Band of a Military Camp" which was advertised to broadcast from 1YA on August 9 (I have no idea whether it did actually come on the air, for I was early floored by the budget), following its opening suite with a trombone solo, "Love’s Enchantment" — anything less amorous than a trombone would be hard to imagine-an intermezzo about one "Phil the Fluter," some "Merry Middies" appropriately merry on a xylophone, and the inevitable march. There is an inconsequence and charming ingenuousness about band. programmes. They are in a world by themselves and only those who, musically speaking, are unsophisticated can expect to gain entrance.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 323, 31 August 1945, Page 9
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226Listen to the Band New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 323, 31 August 1945, Page 9
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