A Lead from Listeners
S it a reflection on programme organisers in general or merely an illustration of the idea that several heads are better than one that the Friday night classical request session from 1YD is consistently more interesting than most of the planned music programmes? A recent session contained Elgar’s "Cockaigne" Overture, Beethoven’s Romance No. 2 in F Major and his Piano Sonata in A Flat Major, Bach’s Piano Concerto in-~D Minor, Haydn’s "Clock" Symphony, and SaintSaens’ "Omphale’s Spinning-Wheel," most of which ate by no means heard too often on the radio. Perhaps the answer is that,those who like serious music, unlike the popular request fans, actually do ask for pieces they have not heard recently rather than those they have. Although the Paganini Violin Concerto and the "Pathetique" Symphony have appeared more than once in this session, it seems to me that a study of these varied programmes would give organisers a few muchneeded clues. It might also lead to the decent retirement of "Italian Caprice," Chabrier’s "Espana" and the ubiquitous "Polovtsian Dances" which the backroom boys are determined the public shall accept as popular cs and like it.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 547, 16 December 1949, Page 10
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194A Lead from Listeners New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 547, 16 December 1949, Page 10
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