Sir,-One had hoped that once the Coronation was over we should be spared more of this tedious cacophony, but I see that we are down for a further instalment from 1YC of "Chéral Music and Modern British Composers." Hark to what Neville Cardus, famous musical critic ef the Manchester Guardian, had to say of modern British composers: "The Festival of British Music continues to keep people out of Queen’s Hall in thousands," etc. Again: "If only our Brittens and Tippetts and Berkeleys could think of a single melody that would take possession of the memory, one chord that would once and for all pierce the musical, consciousness! If only they could hurl us, whether we were
ready to be hurled or not, into a new work as Elgar hurled us into the Violin Concerto!" ’ Please. please spare us more of this’ stuff.
E. A.
AYLWARD
(Rothesay Bay).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 741, 25 September 1953, Page 5
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