Music for Broadcasting
ISTENING to Solomon playing a Scarlatti Sonata from 1YA and following it with the Appassionata, one discovered more evidence in favour of the argument that some composers, some styles of music broadcast much better than others. Sometimes it is a matter of sonority; sometimes of structure. The Scarlatti came through crystal clear, a bit too flamboyant for Scarlatti perhaps, but achieving a stereoscopic effect with its well-defined patterns and economy of sound. The Appassionata, for the most part, was ugly. Ponderous and . thick, it seemed to choke the radio speaker, instead of emerging the beautiful surge of tone it is in the concerthall. Some day someone will do more research along these lines. Music for broadcasting will have special qualities differentiating it in matter and manner from concert-hall music. Radio programmes will be more of an art in their own right than they are now.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 380, 4 October 1946, Page 10
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148Music for Broadcasting New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 380, 4 October 1946, Page 10
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