FOR MIDDLEBROWS
Sir,-Of the three types of brow, I believe it is true to say the middlebrow is least articulate. He is energised less by a passionate enthusiasm than by an easy-going desire which just falls short of rousing him to state ‘his wishes. Nevertheless, I believe he receives more real pleasure from music than either of the others. The highbrow gets his pleasure chiefly from perfection of tech-nique-a specialist pleasure. Where the boogie-woogie artist gets his, I am at a complete loss to understand, so speculation on my part would be a waste of time. But I believe the middlebrow gets more real pleasure than either of them, and, because of his silence, receives least consideration. It gives me great pleasure, therefore, to point to a programme which seems to me, to fit exactly the middle>brows’ wants. On Sunday, November 15, from 2YA Wellington, there was a session called "When Song is Sweet," by Betty Gatehouse, John McDonald and Peter Jeffery, which was beautifully chosen and sung, and just the programme which middlebrows have been asking for for a long time. I hope it will be made available to the other YA stations. I also hope that the two progremmes of Gisele, the Canadian singer, are to go the rounds of the: National stations. Thev are much too good to be shelved.
W. H.
GRAHAM
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 5
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227FOR MIDDLEBROWS New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 5
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