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Music in Australia (1YC) were certainly informative, even though they sounded rather like annual secretarial reports. The second talk told us who was composing what but, except for a quoted remark by Alfred Hill that "Australian music must arise out of the Australian landscape," it evaded discussion of the problem of musical composition in the Dominions. Still, it was valuable for its account, not only of the work of Alfred Hill, Percy Granger and others of the older generation, but of exciting-sound-ing younger men like David Morgan and John Antill. I was/‘a little disappointed that we were not told more about Roy Agnew, who appears to me to be the most daring as well as the most important composer Australia has yet produced. But here surely 1YC missed an opportunity for an unusual programme. That evening, if ever, we could have been given at ‘least an hour of Australian music. Much is recorded; and it should not have been difficult to find local artists to play some that isn’t. As it was, the talk, dealing largely with anti-Romantic composers, was sandwiched between Mendelssohn and Schumann-a contrast which, if piquant, could hardly have been INGRAM’S two talks on
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 668, 24 April 1952, Page 10
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