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HE present erratic system of programme titling has many pitfalls for the inexperienced or unwary listener. Light and Bright is immediately comprehensible, but what of Music to Please? That music designed to please should occupy less than an hour a week appears-if one takes the title seriously
-just a little churlish of 4YA. Ballads that Live set one wondering about those that do not, but from the’ musical value of the programme one is forced to conclude that here no law of the survival of the fittest can apply. The saccharine invitation of Music for My Lady reflects a contempt for My Lady’s musical taste. And is there a suggestion of social-intellectual snobbery in the fact that whereas 4YA presents Tea-Table Tunes at 4.0, 4YC waits till 6.0 and presents Dinner Music--a programme slightly more cultivated in tone? Orgar Interlude, which precedes the morning Devotional Service, and might be expected to bridge the gulf between that and Music While You Work, proves to be the "Donkey Serenade," "Rustle of Spring," etc., played on a cinema organ, but 4YC’s Concert Hour at 5.0, and 4YA’s Morning Proms at 11.35 frequently provide the best short programmes of the week. The most irritating title each week, however, though the mystification is on the grammatical level, is 4YA’s Celebrity Artists. What is a "celebrity" artist, and does celebrity used as an adjective differ in meaning sufficiently from famous, or well-known, or celebrated, to justify this abuse of
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 731, 17 July 1953, Page 10
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247Programme Titles New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 731, 17 July 1953, Page 10
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