Corny Classics
DSEOPLE who enjoy classical music have a thin time from 4YA on Satutdays. Other days may provide their Proms, or the musical broadcasts to schools, or Morning Star, not to mention the never-failing Classical Hour in the afternoon. But on Saturdays? No. A life-line used to be thrown out in Composer Corner, which often provided good listening. Once we were given a Beethoven sonata and a song; another time it was a complete Mozart concerto. Now tuning in to this programme merely proves a triumph of hope over experience, for it has become just an-
other "popular clasics" session — (one might ask, popular with whom?) Schumann was the composer in this corner the other day. As illustrations of his work, we were given the song ‘"Dedication" and "Papillons." No doubt it was only the imminent approach of the next programme that saved us from "Traumerei." If we are to be vouch-: safed only fifteen minutes of 4YA’s time on Saturdays, might we not be given _ something with fewer concessions to popular taste?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 667, 18 April 1952, Page 11
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174Corny Classics New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 667, 18 April 1952, Page 11
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