Symphony Concert?
] MAGINE going to Carnegie Hall (or the Albert Hall or the local town hall, if you will) to hear the Philadelphia. Orchestra. Imagine the orchestra opening the programme with two of the’ famous Stokowski-Bach transcriptions (as a recent Sunday symphony programme
Began). Imagine then, if you can, the orchestra dispersed and the stage occupied by a speaker who discourses on any subject but music. If your imagination can stretch the limits of probability any further you may replace the first speaker by another who gives a complete and detailed weather report and another who reads a news digest. Finally, imagine the return of the orchestra for half an hour or so, Then wonder if you have had a symphony concert. This curious and meagre fare is a regular thing for these Sunday night symphony programmes. Admittedly all these odds and ends are important, but if they must occupy the best part of the evening, could not the Sunday night scheduled programme be extended to the week-night 11 p.m.? The main stations are, in any case, on until this hour,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 323, 31 August 1945, Page 9
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181Symphony Concert? New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 323, 31 August 1945, Page 9
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