School Broadcast
"IT UNCH music" is essentially noncommittal, negative stuff, music relegated to the lowest level as a background for chatter and the clatter of knives and forks. A lunch time recital, however, is quite a different matter, and the nearest thing I have been able to find to this is the Music Appreciation Broadcast to schools for a -quarter-of-an-hour twice a week, Recently I have heard Ernest Jenner discussing the Mazurka-its basic rhythm and variations, its different forms, and best of all, giving as wide as possible a selection of examples, not only from Chopin and Tchaikovski, but also from some of our not so well known English composers. School, it appears, is not what it used to be. I have heard tales (probably apocryphal) about enthusiasts on the wrong side of 20 who had crammed themselves into gym-tunics and school caps in order to hear the National Orchestra’s recent concerts for schoolchildren only; but for these broadcasts no such ingenuity is required. You may, it is true, be a little bashful at first when you are surprised with your ear to the dial during a School Broadcast, but there is no need to start guiltily as if it had been Chicks’ Own Bedtime. Story. These sessions are not. childish, and even if you-did know it all before you have a pleasant feeling of superiority as well as the actual recordings to make it worth your while.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 419, 4 July 1947, Page 9
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238School Broadcast New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 419, 4 July 1947, Page 9
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