MUSICAL FAMILIES
Sir,-I read with interest the comments in Radio Viewsreel on a session which I arranged for 4YZ, called Music Runs in the Family, Far from being in despair, as your commentator suggests, "at finding in classical music a famous son to equal his famous father," I had no intention, at any time, of venturing into the classical field for that session. Your commentator is perhaps unaware that stations allocate a certain percentage of their time on the air to various types of musical entertainment, and, if this is the case, one can dismiss his unsubtle suggestion of my ignorance as merely the arrogance born of his own, because I am engaged for the purpose of arranging light, or "popular" programmes. I do thank him for the compliment he paid me in calling the title "an original inspiration," but I am concerned lest this type of criticism of radio pro--grammes should spread. Should it do so, one can look forward to seeing Winston McCarthy reproved for not giving sermons from Athletic Park, and racing commentators criticised for neglecting the works of Shakespeare.
FRANK BEADLE
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 465, 21 May 1948, Page 5
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186MUSICAL FAMILIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 465, 21 May 1948, Page 5
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