BRASS BANDS
Sir,-There are certainly musical occasions when brass instruments can . be used to good effect. But the objection many people have to brass bands is that they usually lack taste, preferring sheer noise, or the treacly sentimentality of the tenor horn, to music proper, and showing a satanic virtuosity in their choice of "pieces." I am told that the playing of Mozart’s "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" at the recent band contest had. to be heard to be believed. It was like a rhinoceros chasing a butterfly. My own view is that brass band playing really has little or no relation to music. It is a rather boisterous form of athletics. There is no reason in the world why all-in wrestling, tug-o’-war-ring, bear-baiting, pole-squatting, beating one another over the head / with sticks, or riding the greasy pig should not be indulged in by people who like doing these things. The difficulty with brass band playing, as with broadsiding, is that it makes such a noise.
A. R. D.
FAIRBURN
(Devonport).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 508, 18 March 1949, Page 5
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169BRASS BANDS New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 508, 18 March 1949, Page 5
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