MUSIC FOR SCOTS EARS
A WELLINGTON City Councillor was reported recently to have been stricken speechless with incredulity when a fellow-councillor claimed that sound emanating from bagpipes was not music. His incredulity-if not his speechlessness -- would have been shared by a large number of New Zealanders. The pipe music of Scotland is, in fact, so popular that radio stations in all four centres are now devoting a special programme each week to its presentation. Dunedin has a plain Scottish Programme, as does Auckland. Christchurch has a Scottish Half-Houz, while Wellington indulges its Scots with a Gathering of the Clans. In addition to the pipes, the programmes feature instrumental and vocal music from Scotland as well as stories and news items of particular interest to those whose hearts lie north of the Border. The commentator for each programme is usually a Scot. Strange to report, the chief difficulty the programme organis-rs have encountered so far is not the uninformed ‘criticism of outlanders but the real shortage of suitable programme material of local origin. : The weekly half-hour Scottish programmes are heard at 9.30 p.m. from 1YA on Fridays, from 2YA on Wednesdays, and from 3YA on Tuesdays. Dunedin’s station 4YA schedules the programme on Wednesdays, but it is one hour earlier, at 8.30 p.m., possibly so that the bairns may stay up to listen.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 19
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222MUSIC FOR SCOTS EARS New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 19
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