MORE LIGHT ON MAHLER
Sir,-B.E.G.M. in his recent comment on the Mahler song cycle, Songs of a Wayfarer, has stuck his neck out again, but it is he who offers the affront, and rather in the manner of a hissing goose who has strayed into a glade of night-ingales-clearly above his head! If he js so unfamiliar with both the composer and this work (despite its frequent performance from YC stations, and an article and portrait of Mahler in this journal, I think written within the period of his critical encumbency)having apparently turned the knob at random, why settle on this particular item for s6 churlish a criticism? We would all be the better for some "preparation" before first hearings, but the cotitse of broadcasting would be rather fugged if the Service followed B.E.G.M.’s demands and provided it
Ae BOY before every "important" (to* whom?) item, on the chance that it might be unfamiliar (to someone), As~a people we afte spoon-fed enough, and should surely do our own research before we burst into print in bemusement or dis-
satisfaction.
M.S.
B.
(Auckland)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 869, 29 March 1956, Page 5
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182MORE LIGHT ON MAHLER New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 869, 29 March 1956, Page 5
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