ORCHESTRA ON THE COAST
Sir,-May I endorse heartily the letter of your correspondent H. C. Hooper in which he deprecates the remarks of "G. leF. Y." in the recent article "The Orchestra on the Coast." I’m not a Coaster myself nor do I know many
residents of the West Coast well, but those whom I’ve met on various visits to Greymouth seem perfectly ordinary, sane people, quite capable of enjoying and ° appreciating art. No wonder West Coasters are annoyed by "G. leF. Y.’s" implications that they are an aesthetically backward people, who sit goggleeyed at the sight of bassoons and doublebasses. Surely music is something which all men can understand and enjoy, and as such it is a medium for greater friendliness--through common _ experi-ence-between peoples of different nations. Yet here we have a writer, in a journal whose policy is democratic and fairminded, insinuating in a condescending manner that one small section of; one small country is inhabited by people who are culturally the inferiors of him and his brethren on the other side of the island. There is small hope for the aims and objects of Unesco if we can find such unwarranted snobbishness in
our midst.
M.L.
S.
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 546, 9 December 1949, Page 5
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201ORCHESTRA ON THE COAST New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 546, 9 December 1949, Page 5
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