Talking About Music
R. EDGAR BAINTON in his lecturerecitals from 2YA speaks so clearly and simply, that one forgets that music is the most difficult of all the arts to talk about. There ate so many things that can be said about music and so few that ought to be said, that the musician who can strike the happy balance between talking and playing is rare indeed. If he be a. fluent and wellinformed speaker he is likely to ride his pet theories at the expense of the music. On the other ‘hand, if his enthusiasm for the music is transcendent, he will probably become inarticulate or incoherent if forced to explain it. Commentaty thay arise from the music itself -a discussion of the material of the composition-or, by introducing biographical and historical facts it may give the music a background. Dr. Bainton in introducing Haydn and Mozart on June 25 chose the latter course. Either
approach may be successfully used, providing the commentator remembers that in a lecture-recital, as against a straight. out lecture, the music is still the thing. The talking is not to inform but to focus attention and interest on the music.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 368, 12 July 1946, Page 14
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196Talking About Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 368, 12 July 1946, Page 14
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