A PROTEST
Sir,-Seldom, are we ‘shaken sufficiently from our apathetic acceptance of things ‘as they are to raise a protest, perhaps because we feel no one bothers about our petty agitations anyway. But it is impossible for a lover of Lieder to accept the fact that the New Zealand Broadcasting Service not only allow for inclusion in their programmes, but go to the length of making a transcription of an American recording of Anita Boyer crooning "Ein Schwan," one of Edward Grieg’s greatest songs and one which it is authoritatively said no one should attempt to sing unless endowed with sufficient dramatic feeling to bring out the deeper meaning of Ibsen’s poem, This ‘might be a popular recording in America -but this is not America. New Zealand is a country young in culture and therefore should seek growth where cultural roots are deep. We look to the youth of this country to absorb and extend that culture, but why, through many such recordings as this, confuse their sense of values? Let them grow up with increasingly good dance bands for their amusement, but at the same time let them appreciate and love the music of the masters in its true form.
A.W.
G.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 19
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204A PROTEST New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 19
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