Two Pounds for Atonality
HE 1ZB musical quiz presumes a most eclectic taste in those taking part. Questions range from the identification of the voices of crooners to those demanding an encyclopaedic knowledge of the ins and outs of classical, romantic, and modern music. Prizes not won are added to the next night’s list but whether the amount of the prizes is in proportion to the importance of the question as well as to its accumulated difficulty, I do not know. Familiarity with Verdi’s Rigoletto, for instance, earned thirty shillings, and unfamiliarity -understandable — with Beethoven’s only opera lost an even larger sum. The prize question so far must, I think, be the one asking for a definition of "atonality" and the competitor-a post entry-whose ignorance of musical mat‘ters was so complete as to be refreshing, ‘need not have been ashamed of his inability to give an answer. In fact the announcer, after what seemed several minutes, did not seem to have reached the essence of the question, and atonality, worth two pounds, was passed in,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 326, 21 September 1945, Page 8
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175Two Pounds for Atonality New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 326, 21 September 1945, Page 8
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