Sleepers Awake!
CHARMING and gracious little gesture by the main National stations ,is the playing, immediately after the 11.0 p.m. news, of a few minutes’ Meditation Music. The custom has been pleasantly observed at Station 2YA, where it has become a more or less recognised thing ‘(I speak from sporadic experience only,
however) to play the slow movement of some symphony, concerto, sonata ‘or quartet-at any rate, some not too noisy piece of a lyrical nature and occupying no more than two sides of a record (out of consideration for the technician, who can go home all the sooner if the piece is short). For those who have bedside radios this is a pleasant custom, because one can always shut off the National Anthem if it is not desired to stand at attention in pyjamas, and it is pleasant to fall asleep with a Mozart adagio vibrating in the memory. But I wonder what 2YA was getting at when it put on the slow movement of Haydn’s "Surprise" Symphony at this: time the other night-the movement, that is, with the unexpected loud bang that made the ladies jump in London.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 337, 7 December 1945, Page 8
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190Sleepers Awake! New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 337, 7 December 1945, Page 8
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