CLASSICAL PROGRAMMES.
Sir,-Let me protest against played-to-death classical programmes. The other evening Station 2YC set out to broadcast an hour-and-a-half of Brahms, The moment I heard the announcer begin "In 1881 Brahms received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Breslau University and to commemorate the occasion .’ my suspicions were aroused.’ They were verified when I heard the opening strains of the Academic Festival Overture. Not that I dislike the work; but doesn’t the programme arranger of 2YC realise that Brahms wrote other overtures? Next on the programme was the major work, that hardy annual the 3rd Symphony. Why doesn’t someone tell the programme arranger that Brahms wrote four symphonies, not one? ‘ Luckily, Beethoven recordings get a fairer spin as far as symphonies are concerned; he managed to write nine. There is still room for improvement with Haydn and Mozart, though. The Haydn repertoire is restricted to the nicknamed symphonies such as the Clock, the Farewell, the Oxford, and Military, etc.; the Mozart repertoire to the three last symphonies and now and again the Linz, the Prague and the Haffner.
E. F.
KAYE
(Wanganui),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 16
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