Keeping It Dark
HE "Listeners’ Own Classical Corner," a@ request session from 1ZM, opened appropriately the other evening with Mendelssohn’s "Hebrides" Overture. Marian Anderson, Elisabeth-Schumann, Tito Schipa and Artur Rubinstein then contributed short pieces they had been asked for-very pleasant items some of them, but all one-side-of-a-record affairs. I was just rousing myself to switch off, thinking that this session was going to be like a good many others that one can hear at any time, when the next package from the bran tub was Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Granted that this particular assortment of items had been arranged in what was probably the best order, there still. remains the unfortunate fact that no warning was given that a major work was to be played, though there must be many people who would have been glad to listen had they known about it. If 1ZM would put a finishing touch to its very good intentions’ by announcing the details of this hour when it begins at 9 o'clock, it would appeal to many besides those who are sitting by waiting to hear the items they have themselves bespoken,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 338, 14 December 1945, Page 9
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187Keeping It Dark New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 338, 14 December 1945, Page 9
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