College Without Syllabus
FROM 2YC on Tuesdays at 7,0 p.m. comes a session called The College of Musical Knowledge. I sometimes listen to this and nearly always wish that it were a little better. The idea behind the programme is excellent; to play records without titles and ask the audience to listen for something in the music, then tell them the answer later. But the choice of music is usually naive, sometimes futile. To play the record of a viola solo without naming the instrument is one thing. To invite the audience to identify a tenor who sounds like a recording of Tauber, or to play a fragment of a well-known symphony and then follow up with the perversion of it by Tin Pan Alley is a little too silly to attract those who want to know more about music. I wish the Principal of the College took his syllabus more seriously,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 499, 14 January 1949, Page 19
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152College Without Syllabus New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 499, 14 January 1949, Page 19
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