OPERA BROADCASTS
Sir-The NZBS means well but is doing good music a disservice by broadcasting the operas on the main stations. To begin with, songs in a foreign tongue are not songs at all; there can be no song unless the words are understood by the hearer, and divorced from the acting, costumes, lighting, and the atmosphere, operatic singing is merely vowel sounds set to music. In fact, they might Lp.
just as well sing scales. The broadcasts consist of disjointed dirges interspersed with the few melodies from each opera which have become well known through the years. People in the cities can attend the performance if they wish and in addition they have the choice of several’ radio stations at full strength; whereas we in the country often have to depend upon one station, and that one the loudest, for entertainment; some nights the static is so bad that no station is loud encugh to be heard comfortably, and therefore the authorities should confine the all-evening broadcasts to the subsidiary stations.
BETTER
MUSIC
(Morrinsville),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 512, 14 April 1949, Page 5
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175OPERA BROADCASTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 512, 14 April 1949, Page 5
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