CONCERT REPORTING
Sir,-Two letters have appeared in this column adversely criticising the report on the Kraus concert at Auckland. May I be permitted to express entire disagreement with both? The novelty of the mode of expression was just what made the article so good. I got the impression that both Mr. Spackman. and "Reverence" have become "conditioned"
(terrible word!) by prolonged study of .journalese to detest anything so freshly and vividly written as to be quite free from the jargon, the clichés, the commonplaces and the platitudes of the average professional reporter: So they were shocked. and puzzled when. admiration and enthusiasm aroused a writer to a heightened form of utterance seldom found in ephemeral literature. My own reading of the article produced feelings of delight and gratitude that such a rare experience could be so worthilyv
described:
G. L.
LEE
(Auckland)_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 379, 27 September 1946, Page 5
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142CONCERT REPORTING New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 379, 27 September 1946, Page 5
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