CRUMBED CLASSICS
To the Editor-Sir,-I am sure that many lovers of good music must have been disappointed, as I was, to find on seeing I’ve Always Loved You that the piano works named with such particularity in an advertisement in a Wellington paper proved, in the majority of cases, to be included in the film only in the barest fragment. The audience was first presented with the unedifying experfence of hearing three young contenders for a scholarship play respectively the first eight bars of Bach’s D Minor Organ Toccata and Fugue, Rachmaninoff’s C Sharp Minor Prelude, and Mendelssohn’s Rondo Capriccioso; and later one had to endure titbits of similar duration from Mozart’s C Major Sonata, Schubert’s F Minor Moment Musical, and Brahms’s Lullaby. And almost without exception the other works named were also presented only in part, The advertisement conveyed a clear impression that these "immortal masterpieces’? would in fact be played, and not subjected to rude and tasteless emasculation. If Artur Rubinstein chooses to lend himself to this sort of thing that is his affair, but at least the public are entitled not to be misled by vague and caréless adver-
tising.
APPASSIONATA
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 499, 14 January 1949, Page 18
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195CRUMBED CLASSICS New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 499, 14 January 1949, Page 18
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