The Error-Weaker
OT being the owner of a telephone, I always feel grateful to those people who have telephones and use them from time to time to ring up the local radio station to put something right-a record that has been put on wrong, or wrongly named or something. I feel sure this is what happened the night 2YC played Beethoven’s Eroica symphony, and the | announcer called it the Error-weaker symphony. I winced, but was impotent. I had no telephone, so I could not request the announcer to ‘amend the offence at the end of the work. Someone else must have done it. When the symphony ended the announcer got the name right. There was nothing much to be done, though, when on the same evening the same announcer called Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Infanta a Pavane for a Dead Infant. This poignant little terpsichorean inquest was over in four minutes, which I suppose hardly allowed time for any of the countless protesting listeners to get a call through the jammed wires.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 357, 26 April 1946, Page 11
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173The Error-Weaker New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 357, 26 April 1946, Page 11
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