2YC DANCE SESSIONS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 327, 28 September 1945, Page 24

2YC DANCE SESSIONS

Sir,-A delightful point about J. C, White’s letter is that he has accepted as correct my description of the musi¢ of Silvester and Bradley: "Hats off to the gutless," he says. Cripes! The point about dancing to the music of these combinations was irrelevant, for I don’t deny its danceability at all, but merely deplore the puerility of the music: the sax takes a chorus, the violin takes a chorus, the pianos twiddle a modulation, and then comes the All In Ridee out, when sax and violin play together, What musical daring! What highly come mendable experimentation! What the | heck! I challenge the correspondent’s — statement that inclusion of numbers by —

these gutless wonders would IMPROVE the session; does the fact that this would cause the session to appeal more to our friend guarantee a better standard? Come off it! Anyway, calling the illustrious Josephine Bradley to my aid, may I point out that recordings by her "Jive Music" Band indicate that she is not the music reactionary her fans are. "Gentle Annie’s" letter by contrast makes one deeply regret that one man’s meat IS another’s poison. I’m sure, that she has no difficulty in finding plenty of music to her liking later in the evening however, while it seems rather quaint to make herself "thoroughly jaded" by listening to half-an-hour of music she so heartily (and gently) dislikes. It doesn’t seem fair, by the way, to bring the announcer into it; an important part of his job is to sound cheerful and enthusiastic no matter what sort of fare he’s ushering on to the ether, and there’s no doubt that this chap succeeds.

ANON

(Timaru).