MUSIC IN NEW ZEALAND
Sir-In the Sunday night talk which he recorded for broadcasting after his departure from New Zealand, Mr. Arthur Jacobs said: "I have heard some New Zealand music that is supposed to be *modern-I mean some piano preludes by Douglas Lilburn-but I was unable to see any value in.it at all." I myself have read some English concert notices that were supposed to be criti-cism-I mean some short reviews in the Daily Express, by Arthur Jacobs-but I was unable to see ‘any value in them at all. I do not know by whom it was supposed that these notices were criticism; but I'am content to saddle them with this claim. Nor do I know whether the reviews in question fairly represent their author’s work. They were written some years ago (when I was in London and Teading all the music critics there), and their ‘author may have since built his reputation on more substantial, perhaps unpublished work in other mediums, But I have no information about this other work, It may be, of course, that the brevity and slightness of these examples were connected with the circumstances of their publication; but I have no information on this point, either. I am content to give the appearance of judging Mr. Jacobs’s present-day work, if not of judging English music criticism generally, on the strength of these old examples of strictly limited intention. Some readers may give my opinions more weight than they properly deserve. This does not matter. I shall not be on the same side of the world as Mr. Jacobs when they appear, and shall not have to answer for them. at least to him.
ANTONY
ALPERS
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 5
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282MUSIC IN NEW ZEALAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 5
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