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NE sometimes feels that New Zealand audiences clap the overseas attist because it is the thing to do, In fact, when Dame Sybil Thorndike and Sir Lewis Casson were in New Zealand, this proclivity of ours was aided and abetted by a critic who deplored our lack of appreciation despite the encores given on that occasion. In contrast to such mechanical clapping as is deemed fit here I have been sufprised by the wild enthusiastn which greets the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts heard over 3YC. One of the marks of real enenthusiasm, surely, is that it breaks the rules of good taste in sofe way of another. Would a whole audience in our country ever so far forget itself as to rise and sing what the orchestra was playing, or, when an item was finished, whistle as well as clap for an encoré?
But this brings me-to the last point, namely, that this reaction by the audience was prompted by the kind of music played by the BBC Orchestra in this programme, which included Land of Hope and Glory and Jerusalem: in-between music which, while being above the level of the usual community song, is not so complex as to be beyond this kind of response.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 803, 10 December 1954, Page 10
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208Barriers Down New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 803, 10 December 1954, Page 10
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