Sir,-Iconoclasm has its merits, but A. R. D. Fairburn has overshot himself. Bands don’t usually play what they want to-they play pieces suitable for their various public jobs, i.e., ceremonies, tecitals at beaches and parks, etc.; and taste doesn’t enter into the question; they’re doing a job. Further, there’s very little "good" music written for them, and they naturally turn to transcriptions. However, when your correspondent
careers on and asserts that bands bear no relation at all to music, it’s hard to decide whether he’s being _ provocative or whether he doesn’t know his subject. . « A band hasn’t many sources of tone colour and such as ‘there are limit composers to somewhat heroic themes; but
within these limits there is much delightful and artistic scoring to be found. Enough at any rate to make Mr. Fairburn’s sweating analogy about greasy athletes broadsiding round poles-or whatever his strenuous nonsense wasmore silly than sense. ...
T.E.
F.
(Johnsonville).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 511, 8 April 1949, Page 20
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