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Sir-I sympathise with your correspondent, Wm. Cranna_ (Listener November 20), having heard the "improvement " of Brahm’s§ Third Symphony. Yet even that palls in comparison with my experience when I heard a Hit Parade programme, It appeared that the latest "hit" is a song entitled "You heard me singing in the Chapel." It has always interested me to note that, through the ages, religious themes have called forth probably the greatest works of all the composers. This latest "hit," with stupid words describing an awakening of religious faith, sung (oh! suffer the word!) in. slow blues tempo, is an affront both to the music-lover and to anyone for whom religion has any significance whatever. Worse than bad, it is indecent. The last line of the song is, I think, "to sing and praise the Lord." The announcer closed the programme with the remark that "This is it for this week." As far as I am concerned, it certainly is.
P.
CLAMAN
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 5
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163CLASSICS PARODIED New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 5
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