Family Music
GREAT deal of amusement should result from 4ZB’s forthcoming programme comprising family-group performances. The announcer in his preliminary advertising asked for volunteer performances, suggesting that the possibilities were many-duets, trios, "or some family may even be able to enter a quintet!" Personally, I shall be astonished if any family is able and willing to do so; more’s the pity. In the 18th Century large numbers of competent performers were by no means confined to such families as the Bachs, who among them might, at a pinch, have made up three or four quintets if required. Even in Victorian days, although the music was not of that rare variety performed and composed among the sons of Johanna Sebastian, yet the family, we are told, gathered about the piano and harmonised effectively enough, lacking suitable alternative amusements. To-day, with families of one and two, the difficulty is not the standard of performance, but the numbers. Any modern quintet which appears in such a programme deserves first place, no matter what sort or standard of music it chooses to perform.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 356, 18 April 1946, Page 15
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179Family Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 356, 18 April 1946, Page 15
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