Words Before Music
AURICE LEECH arranges and narrates various musical programmes from 4YA, and is to be congratulated on his efforts to introduce listeners to something, worthwhile in choral gnd orchestral works. There are times when a straightforward type of concert is preferable, when the works performed are by standard composers and well known to the majority of listeners. But even with standard composers, there are times when a commentary helps both the listener who knows the work and the listener who hears it for the first time. This is where Maurice Leech’s commentaries are of great use, as a preliminary to his Sunday concerts of largescale works. Composers like Schonberg, Richard Strauss and Delius (to mention only three whose works have been heard recently in these programmes) did not write compositions which are self-ex-planatory at first hearing. The only criticism I have to make about these commentaries is that they are tdo long; I find that, by the time the music starts, I have already forgotten what it was the narrator told me to listen for in section two of the third movement,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 532, 2 September 1949, Page 11
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184Words Before Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 532, 2 September 1949, Page 11
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