CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Se can 1 diseembie® no lohger. Try as I will, I can abide little or fione of the music of the last two decades. Obsessively fond of music from _ early childhood (Bach* and ail), I ‘have laboured to keép an open mind on the subject; but with the exéeption of a few established, composers, IT admit defeat. This host of new names cropping up during the last few years!They get
recorded, and copiously-long symphonic works included. And how they.-belabour the brass, that bully of the orchestra (unless you crack him) who makes one wish its inventor had stopped short at the horn and trurnpet! (Not that brass hasn’t its moments, as in Belshazzar’s Feast.) With varying degrees of violence they bash that brass from end to end. Is ‘ithe | distress; almost: physical; pain, which Ba these: start ‘up, enitirel due to ignorancé-want of musical: With Papuactity, 1 doubt it. 7h Bik cer et of spenpe pgs fied of Sir Arnold Bax: rt of but my ne streamed}, TD think admission’ of this extreme, sti is programmes is. the. Nee iterest which. musicians take in it fran the} technical standpoint, the * skill; the "diabdlical. cunning and dexterity of the s€ores, And +I think they, are. deafened by this professional interest — to. the cacophony. Now,. what is *most. outstanding in. the "great" compoge dless fertility of invention,- "€orresponding | knowledge ‘and skill, pliis>genius. They are never at a loss for .themied. I. have been assured that thesé, Jatterdday lads ‘could: ‘invent . quite | fine™ tures if they wished. But could they? And: wouldn’t they if they could® This..cestury has certainly seen something of a musical renaissance in its earlier decades. That seems to have subsided andthe rot to have set in.
DOUBTING
THOMAS
(Titirangi).
Abridged. Ed. )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 5
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