CHIMES OR CLASSICS?
Sir,-The proper presentation and conclusion of a piece of classical music seems of secondary importance when it comes to the 9.0 p.m, chimes. A Wagner overture was recently blended into the chimes, a Beethoven symphony was interrupted for a relay from Parliament, and on Saturday, January 11, a Prokofieff concerto of six movements, resented by Station 2YC, was cut short half-way through the fourth movement without warning, and the chimes sounded as a compensation for one’s surprised feeling of frustration. One can never feel at ease at a musical programme when it may be prematurely ended at any time from any station, Could the sounding of the chimes not be restricted to the main national stations and the programme organizers be instructed to arrange their presentations more carefully, so that interruptions become unnecessary? It is better not to broadcast a sonata at all than to cut it short before its end.
H.
SUSCHNY
( Wellington ).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 397, 31 January 1947, Page 5
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157CHIMES OR CLASSICS? New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 397, 31 January 1947, Page 5
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