No Soap, Please
SOMETIMES try to listen to the Sunday Morning Concert at 10.0 a.m. from 2ZB, but though the music always consists of beautiful examples of playing and recording, and the few remarks introducing each little piece are almost invariably well chosen, there is one infuriating characteristic of the broadcast which drives me remorselessly to the ‘switch; while the announcer is speaking
the music is faded in with his voice and continues while he sometimes says three sentences. Then, when he has stopped, one hears the music clearly for the first time after 20 bars or so of the composition have passed. This is the technique of the soap opera, in which (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) surges of music are heard between interludes of speaking. It is quite out of place in a broadcast where the music is the important thing.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 512, 14 April 1949, Page 8
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146No Soap, Please New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 512, 14 April 1949, Page 8
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