A NEW ZEALAND COMPOSITION
Plry,-Under the above heading, in your issue of June 14, appeared a letter signed A, D, Heenan, which eulogised the "Theme and Variations for Two Pianos," an original composition by Bessie Pollard, as broadcast from 2YA on May 14. Having listened to this broadcast, I find it difficult to write with restraint in reply to Mr, Heenan’s extravagant and totally unwarranted panegyric. He complains that your commentators ignored the work. No doult they did so with good reason. There are some things better ignored and Miss Pollard’s composition is among them, This may seem ungallant, but at times the critic must be cruel to be kind. ‘What amazes me is that such a work could have been accepted for broadcast-
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L. D.
AUSTIN
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 367, 5 July 1946, Page 23
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129A NEW ZEALAND COMPOSITION New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 367, 5 July 1946, Page 23
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