Sir.-lMuch. correspondence has already arisen in your paper about the new National Orchestra. There seem to be two factions-one determined to be leased with whateyer is given them, the other critical, like Dr. Beaglehole, and wisely so. The only contribution I wish to make is on the subject of Dr, Finlay’s headlined question: "By what standard?" To judge the orchestra by the normal performance of, say the London Philharmonic, he says, is unfair and irrational. I say that, unless the conductor and members do this, unless they take the world’s very best (I would say Toscanini’s) for their aim and Standard from the very first, they will never improve much, It’s no use eyer being satisfied
with the plaudits and bouquets of the easily pleased. Let the orchestra aim at perfection and they will attain heights; let them bask in uncritical praise, and there will always be, as now, room for considerable improvement.
F. K.
TUCKER
(Gisborne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 408, 18 April 1947, Page 5
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