(This correspondence is now closed.-Ed.)
STUDIO RECITALS
Sir,-How long are listeners to put up with studio recitals? "Encourage local talent" has been a popular slogan for the last 50 years, but who ever heard of any good accruing from such encouragement? The great faults to be found in these studio vocal performances are: (1) Poor voices. (2) Entire lack of art sense and the consequent murdering of good music. (3) The inordinate length of torture suffered by listeners — often a full half-hour at a time. (4) Choice of music unperformable by the aspirants to fame, and (5) Victimisation of talented and excellent accompanists, for whom it must often be the last refinement of torture to have to assist at these amateur performances. Genuine lovers of ‘music, hungry to hear celebrated songs by Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Schubert, Schumann, Grieg, Tchaikovski, Mallinson, Vaughan Williams, etc., etc., surely must hasten to escape the miseries of a studio recital by switching to another station, only to find another recital going on there. Escape! But where to? To the commercial stations? To the stations where "fading" is so prevalent that it becomes a nuisance? I. would suggest a more careful examination of these amateur "aspirants to fame" before they. are allowed to bore the public to madness.
H. E.
GUNTER
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 386, 15 November 1946, Page 22
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215STUDIO RECITALS New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 386, 15 November 1946, Page 22
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