NEW ZEALAND COMPOSERS
Sir,-In his review of the Christchurch Civic Music Council’s festival of New Zealand composers’ music, your contributor Owen Jensen commented that most of the works performed might have been written 50 or 60 years ago--so free were they from 20th Century influence. Mr, Jensen obviously did not intend this as a compliment, but actually it was a striking tribute to the good taste and harmonic sanity of the composers represented, I myself listened to the broadcast of that festival, and I was delighted with the high standard, both of creation and performance, revealed by the participants, and the refreshing absence of Bartokery
L. D.
AUSTIN
(Wellington),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 797, 29 October 1954, Page 5
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109NEW ZEALAND COMPOSERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 797, 29 October 1954, Page 5
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