NATIONAL ORCHESTRA
Sir-In a recent issue of The Listener, I read a letter dealing with the difficulty the writer said was being experienced in maintaining the Orchestra’s present membership. The writer was of the opinion that if the Orchestra’s members were given a fair salary there would no longer be any difficulty in keeping them. I know, personally, no one of the players, nor anyone connected with them; nor do I know whether these people receive £5 or £500, per annum, or per concert. I am simply one of the Orchestra’s admirers, and had the great good fortune to strike their first
concert in one of the main centres, I do not profess to be a musician, but I shall never forget ‘their rendering of "The Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2," on that occasion. All I wish to say is that it seems a very real calamity if it is true that such a courageous scheme, that has so obviously proved itself amazingly successful, should now be in danger of losing some of its members simply because they are inadequately paid. if they are underpaid then I do hope thut some fair-minded person, and all musi-cally-minded people, will see that trouble rectified. We must, whatever the method. keep them playing!
LAND GIRL ADMIRER
(Fairlie)_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 454, 5 March 1948, Page 5
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213NATIONAL ORCHESTRA New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 454, 5 March 1948, Page 5
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