MUSIC AND THE REST.
Sir,-A _ blessing on the National Orchestra, Mr. Andersen Tyrer, and Miss Isobel Baillie, and those ‘who apparently cannot do without them and their kind. But is there no happy medium? Must the things other people enjoy and anticipate be swept aside because one of those others wants the air? 2YA for the National Orchestra and Miss Baillie, 3YA for the same reason and once for no apparent cause at all, 1YA several times have blithely ignored published programmes for the orchestra-Baillie combination, despite the fact that almost nightly these two, together or singly, have had their full hour or two, the night before, some. where else. Tastes differ with natures, and though one realises the wide appeal and eminently desirable vogue of such things, the leopard cannot change its spots, and the inclination (often longing) of many for their own weaknesses persists. One of the best produced and most imaginatively handled features the BBC has given the NZBS-"Dombey and Son"-has been butchered twice to make a Tyrer-Baillie holiday. In its own sphere ‘"Dombey and Son" has as much cultural uplift, artistic merit, and classic quality as the orchestra and Miss Baillie can ‘contrive. Why then sacrifice it? That is only one case out of a dozen-literally a dozen. Comparisons between the Listener programmes since March 1 and the actual ’ offerings of YA stations will furnish all the confirmation this complaint needs.
M. E.
JONES
(Palmerston Nth.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 460, 16 April 1948, Page 22
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