NATIONAL ORCHESTRA
Sir,-Replying to your Editorial of March 14 about criticism of the National Orchestra: this criticism among those who knew the essential conditions necessary to get and keep a good orchestra, took the form, not of criticism of individual talent, but of saying that it was impossible with the groups separated for so much time, to get the required practice necessary. The big orchestras in England and abroad practise from three hours daily six days a week, 11 months in the year, in addition to frequent concerts, and much private and group practice. This constant: playing together is necessary to obtain that feeling of unity and wholeness and complete accord, which should be immediately felt by the listener. , ‘ It may not be generally realised that it is usually impossible for any individual player to hear the whole orchestra; depending on his position, he hears either the nearest or noisiest instruments as well as his own. This makes it still more important to have that complete confidence in one’s own
and other’s parts which ogly comes from continual practice with all the instruments and a conductor who has the confidence of the whole orchestra.
E. M.
SMITH
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 405, 28 March 1947, Page 5
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198NATIONAL ORCHESTRA New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 405, 28 March 1947, Page 5
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