Film Music
was it an accident that 4YA played Moussorgsky’s Night on the Bare Mountain only a day after Disney’s film Fantasia enjoyed a brief revival in Dunedin? It must have been, since we were not treated to Tchaikowski, Bach, or Beethoven at the same time. Yet it was an interesting coincidence, proving to my mind at least that visual aid is not necessary for the enjoyment of even such «2 eloquently programmatic work, and may indeed be a positive hindrance to the music’s fullest appreciation. Nevertheless a closer co-operation is possible and indeed necessary between radio and the other arts, of which the film is the newest; since good composers (Walton, Ireland, Bliss, etc.) have begun writing for the films, a close connection between radio programmes and current films might prove interesting, I fancy that the most important point which such a scheme would prove would be that while the film cannot entirely do without music, and is usually enhanced by judicious use of a good musical score, on the other hand music which does not "get across" when played without its film accompaniment is just not good music.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 406, 3 April 1947, Page 13
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190Film Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 406, 3 April 1947, Page 13
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