Musical Opinions
MISSED Nigel Eastgate’s earlier talks "Listening to Music" but I had heard much about how they were phrased and delivered, that he talked down outrageously, and that he couldn’t be more than eighteen years old. It was therefore with a lively anticipation that I listened to his final talk: "The audience has to work, too." I failed to find in it any of the unpleasing qualities I had been led to expect. His voice is light, and his manner slyly urbane, and though he must be young, he spoke with dryish detachment which would have become a much older man. Perhaps Mr. Eastgate was unable to be too highhanded in his discussion of the modern musical modes, since they have not yet (continued on next page)
establishd a firm tradition at which brickbats may be hurled, but his account of the main figures in the movement and his judicious examples of their work were crisp and illuminating. I hope he will be encouraged to speak again, and. if he wishes to be trenchant, even rude, I shall applaud: rudeness supported by intellectual responsibility can have a liberating effect and, by getting people’s dander up, may urge them to consider matters on which they had previously held no opinion at all.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 815, 11 March 1955, Page 10
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212Musical Opinions New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 815, 11 March 1955, Page 10
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