Music With Meals
SOMETIMES I wonder if those who "plan our dinner music programmes do so in the fond hope that nobody
listens to them with any real degree of attention. The effort required to make an integrated concert for deaf ears is too great to encourage planners to overcome the undoubted difficulties of fitting together a collection of short recordings to fill a given time. Yet even if light classical music is the aim of these programmes, surely a concert of | the nature of the Proms could be achieved if more attention were given to its construction. A random grab at a selection of recordings which produces Tchaikovski’s Italian Caprice, then Belshazar’s Feast, by Sibelius, and follows these with Molly on the Shore, as on a Sunday recently, can hardly be applauded as inspired planning. It may spring from the belief that no one listens; and it may well have that very
effect.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 776, 4 June 1954, Page 11
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155Music With Meals New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 776, 4 June 1954, Page 11
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