Music for the Young in Heart
WELL, well, well, a youth concert it’s . to be. The Orchestra’s next appearance on the platform is for the up-and-‘coming audience. And if youth rallies round as it did’ during the Prom season this should be an occasion indeed. This is all very well, but I wonder who James Robertson, his players and the NZBS have in mind when they throw the ball to "youth." If you ask me, looking at the programme and the way it’s drafted, it’s more for the young in heart-from eighteen to eighty or more-for those to whom a concert is still an exciting experience, and listening to music an adventure. And I rather suspect that James Robertson himself would be happy to count himself among these. As for myself, while I have long given up any aspirations to. jump five-bar gates, I'll be right along toeing.the line on the first bar of a first performance of a new s hony, especially when it comes from tie pen of so bright a spark as Malcolm Arnold. For that’s what we
miss so much these days-the opportunity of hearing music, not only fresh from the composer’s pen, but virtually as a surprise packet. This Wellington youth concert, then, should be an evening of ripe listening. What’s more, Malcolm Arnold’s music is the right stuff to generate enthusiasm. Mr. Arnold, who was a lively spirit back in his London Philharmonic days-not so far back, either-is no moody philosopher or gloomy dean of music. His is one of the brightest stars on the English musical horizon. In fact, it’s well on its way to its zenith. One of the critics, after the first London performance at the Festival Hall on June 3 last year, affected to find traces of Mahler, Sibelius and Strayinsky in this Second Symphony. I think you will find large slices of Mr. Arnold himself, too, Says the same critic: "Mr. Arnold’s music, and particularly in this symphony, may simply be enjoyed as the gay philosophy of &n extrovert." Yes, this should quite an occasion.
Owen
Jensen
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 818, 1 April 1955, Page 6
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348Music for the Young in Heart New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 818, 1 April 1955, Page 6
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