Culture With Comfort
© spring reluctantly approaches, we begin to be released once more from that odd dispensation by which the bulk of our "cultural activities" take place in the coldest and wettest part of the year. This gave added point to a hearing of Mr. Stanley Oliver's lively and informative talk (from, 1YC) on the Royal Festival Hall. The picture it presented was almost Elysianthe acoustically-perfected hall, the airconditioning, the sponge-rubber seats with sound-absorbent bottoms, the orchestra in full view, the complete insulation, the never-crowded exits and (not least) the bars and dining-room. How different (to put it mildly) from our own frozen or .steaming halls. the dead spots and booming echoes, the awful emptiness of empty seats, and the chairs which become instruments of torture in the second half. Not forgetting the desperate struggle for late transport, and the fast broken after a long tram journey. It is no doubt part of our celebrated "puritanism" that we have not learned to associate cultute with comfort. ‘Mr, Oliver’s talk ended with a moving account of an ovation tu’ Vaughan Williams-a reminder that greatness still exists, and has its proper setting.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 741, 25 September 1953, Page 10
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190Culture With Comfort New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 741, 25 September 1953, Page 10
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