ISLANDS OF MUSIC
Sir,-"‘Now, don’t switch off-you are going to like this." These were the words of a 2ZB announcer’ bringing in the late Sunday classical concert and presumably scaring off all folk who don’t wish to be the subjects of Uplift. The same could be said of the apologetic little "Classical Corner" of 2YA’s early morning. The little islands of music, coming in a sea of mere noise, are most refreshing to the enthusiast, and we hope net the interest of some who do not usually seek programmes of this type. But would it not be wiser to "clap roundly into them,’ without indulging in remarks which imply that a certain offensive air of fefinement is about to prevail? Something may also be said on the design of such programmes. A short session of short bits is mean in effect, and any intended resemblance to a miniature concert programme is not apparent to the hurrying listener. A single work of the brilliant type-Pines of Rome and its brother suites, Stravinsky’s Nightingale, or Boyce Symphony, stays much longer in the memory.
ROY
COWAN
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 545, 2 December 1949, Page 5
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184ISLANDS OF MUSIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 545, 2 December 1949, Page 5
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