Comfortable Classics
T is good to, see that, whatever threats may have been made to the security of the 1YD Classical Request Session, it remains as at least one gesture in the direction of that flexibility in level programming which was proclaimed as one of the characteristics of the New Deal (Remember the New Deal? as Anna Russell might say). At first sight, there may appear to be a nagging incongruity between the character of 1YD’s normal features and Classical Requests. Yet the latter, it is clear, gives listeners a chance of hearing the bread-and-butter works, the well-known Beethoven and Tchaikovski symphonies, Schubert songs and Mozart concerti nowadays rarely programmed from 1YC. The unventuresome in music, who prefer the familiar to the new and uncertain are, in fact, catered for here as they are on no other Auckland station. And as it is a safe assummtion that more peovle want to hear Beethoven’s Fifth and Shostakovich’s Third, it isa pity that the Classical Request Session has now shrunk from two hours to @ grudging one, as if a poor, eccentric relative were being gently but firmly edged out of her living quarters by more active and vociferous nicinoers ot the family.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 819, 7 April 1955, Page 11
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200Comfortable Classics New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 819, 7 April 1955, Page 11
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