Sir,-During the past four months'I have listened to most of the church music broadcast by the YA stations and the standard of much of this music has been disgraceful. There are few people foolish enough to deny that music is a necessary part of church worship, but few who demand that it be of the highest possible standard. The majority favour mediocrity. Like "Picton Listener," in a recent issue, they put forward the view that it’s the service and not the manner of presentation that matters, and that a church service is not a concert. One might as well say that it was the ideas that Christ had in His mind that mattered, and that, the skill and efficiency with which He imparted His wisdom to us did not count. Nobody has suggested that church services should be concerts, but surely the standard of the music should be at least as high, if not higher, than that we expect from the concert platform or in our more serious radio entertainment.
R. I.
PHILPOT
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 475, 30 July 1948, Page 14
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