BAND PROGRAMMES
Sir-I cannot understand why it is that in our Band programmes we are given practically all military bands in-
| stead of brass bands. New Zealand, es far as bands go, is definitely brass, with the exclusion of all reeds, yet we have to listen to the combination of reed, wood-wind, and brass. Surely if we are to progress with our bands, brass band being New Zealand’s bands, records of benefit to them should be featured, not throttled! How can the young’ player of to-day be expected to further the standard of New Zealand bands if he is given, instead of encouragement from the radio, the feeling that he is out of place (or date). As a brass band player, it grieves me to hear my favourites being, according to brass band training, ruined by a combination that is practically foreign to this country. Wouldn’t it be merely common sense to give us more records of the all-brass type? I sat up to listen
to the Slavonic Rhapsody the other night and was so disappointed to hear it being played by a military band! Let us have brass band records of a good type, "Tannhauser," "The Highwayman," "William Tell" and many more. Just sensible is all that the organisers would need to be-not foolish!
BRASS
BAND
(Paeroa) .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 326, 21 September 1945, Page 14
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218BAND PROGRAMMES New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 326, 21 September 1945, Page 14
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