MUSICAL AWAKENING.
Sir,-I have just read an article called "America’s Musical Awakening," and read it with a burning heart. From November to March, it states, 278 stations broadcast Metropolitan Opera for three to four hours every Saturday afternoon. These sessions are "eagerly anticipated by 15,000,000 families." Isn’t it time that New Zealanders were awakened to music also? Week after week The Listener brings letters from the musically hungry. "Young Farmer and His Wife" want something good before the day’s work begins; "Patience," having opportunity to listen only at breakfast and dinner, complains of the miserable fare; G. A. McCracken laments the "utter dullness," and "scrappiness" of the Sunday afternoon programmes; and so on. The standard of musical appreciation is rising while at the same time radio programmes appear to be deteriorating. Are these protests of any use?
Do they reach the right spot? Are they ever acted upon? If not what more can be done?
L. M.
HUNTER-BROWN
(Nelson).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 498, 7 January 1949, Page 5
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159MUSICAL AWAKENING. New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 498, 7 January 1949, Page 5
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