Music from America
HOEVER thought of giving another airing to the records of new music originally issued by the U.S.A. Office of Information and used on the American "Mosquito" network deserves congratulation and encouragement, for this music needs to be heard often to .be assimilated. But to label the series "Contemporary Music," just this and no more, is an insidious if unintentional form of
propaganda. Of 17 compositions broadcast in seven programmes only one was composed outside America, and this proportion is representative I think of the whole series. Admirable as are these programmes, they give a somewhat unbalanced picture of music to-day. Either some commercial recordings of new music from other countries should be interpolated, or the label should be altered to "Music from America."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 349, 1 March 1946, Page 12
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126Music from America New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 349, 1 March 1946, Page 12
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