LIGHT MUSIC
Sir,.-Your correspondent F. M. Price merits some support in his criticism of what the New Zealand Broadcasting Service gives out as "light music," and I welcome this opporturity to back him up. The gulf between the
refined and the crude musical styles is palpably too wide, and if the NZBS were to institute some form of listener research I venture to suggest that this point would find ample evidence. There are, after all, many middle-aged radio licence-holders who would like to listen to the daytime musical programmes, but as the planners apparently assume that only teenagers and crooner fans do so, these other would-be listeners forgo listening (as I do). Another psint I would like to add concerns the early morning session from YA stations-why their addiction to reels and.jigs?. What normal pérson feels like being chivvied about at such a tempo so early in the day? Sometimes I begin to wonder if the function of broadcasting requires some renewed evaluation. Is it not advisable to consider some form of listener ree search, such as the BBC inaugurates?
C. H.
CHAMBERS
(Henderson).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 811, 11 February 1955, Page 5
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184LIGHT MUSIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 811, 11 February 1955, Page 5
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