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NLY the more gifted among us can properly appreciate music of any complexity at the first hearing. For the rest of us it is dogged as does it, only frequent re-hearing enabling us to grasp the structure whole, with an understanding of the subtle inter-relation of its parts. There are, of course, some shortcuts, and of the best of these were Professor V. E. Galway’s Masterpieces of Music, with thematic illustrations, now (to our sorrow) given up and not replaced by something similar. On the Sunday preceding the Dunedin concerts of the National Orchestra, however, 4YA presented a short programme consisting of a commentary on some of the works to be performed by the Orchestra, giving illustrations of the main themes. It was a most useful programme, with its emphasis on its musical illustrations, rather than a merely verbal appreciation of the music to be heard. Such previews could, I feel, with advantage, be given before one major (and preferably repeated) work each week.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 633, 17 August 1951, Page 10
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166Concert Preview New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 633, 17 August 1951, Page 10
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