MUSIC FOR BANDS
Sir-I should like to support Mr, Heawood. Personally, I like band music, but when it comes to listening to music written for a string orchestra, played by a brass band, I think the brass band is not fulfilling the composer’s ideas, A brass band énthusiast of my acquaintance once claimed that band music is the music of. the New World, of the new century; and now that the old masters are transposed »into brass band arrangements, symphony orchestras will become redundant. It appears that others think along the same lines. In listening to a regular session of band music I sometimes feel that some conductors and players in brass bands merely show their technical ability by performing music other than that which was composed for. and is stitable for.
brass bands.
J.
M.
(Gisborne)_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 768, 9 April 1954, Page 5
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137MUSIC FOR BANDS New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 768, 9 April 1954, Page 5
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