DUNEDIN R.S. CHOIR
eir,-i am sorry the Wunedin Keturned Services Choir should have misinterpreted my paragraph entitled "Onward." I had absolutely no intention of "damning with faint praise." I have listened to this choir with interest for years, and if I did not consider its performances a worthy contribution to Dunedin’s music I should not have mentioned it at all. But the choir already has in its library some music by masters of song-writing and it was the remembrance of some splendid performances
in the past which led me to criticise the music selected for the broadcast under discussion. I cannot. agree with Mr. Harre about the standard of the songs which I mentioned as being hackneyed, namely, "Mandalay," "Excelsior," and "Smilin’ Thru." The compogers of these songs may be, as Mr. Harre says, worldfamous. So are Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Vera Lynn, yet* I prefer Oscar Natzke. And I maintain that no "difficult," or "modern" arrangement of "Smilin’ Thru," whether by Doris Arnold or anybody else, can make that song anything but a sentimental ballad. However, while we can agree to differ on the sort of music we prefer, there is another matter on which we are in hearty agreement-the high cost of music. One and sixpence per copy for choir music which used to be fourpence is appalling.
DUNEDIN VIEWSREEL
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 327, 28 September 1945, Page 5
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