Too Easy
HAVING listened to a programme of Mozart recordings from the depths of a comfortable arm-chair the other night, and to a remarkably good reception (in Christchurch) of the National Orchestra’s concert on Saturday~ night from the same vantage-point, I have been wondering seriously whether the future radio-conscious generation will ever bother to go to concerts at all. The advantages of attending the actual performance are so few. One sees, and is seen-which may carry quite a lot of weight; and one is safe from interruption. Apart from these, most of the honours go to the broadcast; no queues for uncomfortable and expensive seats; no turning out on a cold night; no toffee-eater or bronchitis-case in the row behind; and, if you happen to feel like that about it, always the knob to turn it off by. The whole thing is just too easy. And when television comes in} and the listener may see for himself exactly what Madame Kraus is wearing to-night-assuming, of course, that if not essential, this is at least relevant to his enjoyment of the programme-the man who attends concerts in person will be dismissed as a crank. Which he may be. On the other hand he may simply be endeavouring to save himself from the slough of total inertia.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 407, 11 April 1947, Page 16
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215Too Easy New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 407, 11 April 1947, Page 16
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