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MUSICAL PROGRAMMES

Sir,-With the recent-change in policy with regard to the YC dinner music programme, it was only to be expected

that there would be some reaction from listeners who enjoyed the previous type of programme. I see in The Listener dated March 29 your answer to two letters presumably dealing with this subject. As a listener to the previous type of dinner music programme, I do not think your reply is at all satisfactory, Certainly the various news broadcasts from the YAs obviate smooth presentation of a programme, but any listeners to the YA stations at this particular time are surely those whose primary interest is a news broadcast. To inflict their 6.0 p.m. to 7.0 p.m. musical menu upon more seriously-minded YC listeners is just nonsensical. The YC dinner music programme was never heavy. The main items were popular overtures, operatic arias, ballet suites and the like. To suddenly switch to items by the Melachrino Orchestra, Harry Davidson playing Gilbert and Sullivan, "Song of Soho" and others is annoying to say the least. In Auckland both 1ZB and 1YD are on the air at 6.0 p.m. with light programmes designed for the dinner hour, Why produce the same type of music from a third station? If, as you say in your reply to your two correspondents, the YCs do not take up their evening programmes until 7.0 p.m., why is the broadcast of Parsifal this evening commencing at 6.30 p.m.? Surely this is encroaching upon the YA dinner music I’m afraid there is no excuse worth of serious consideration for the Service's latest deplorable move. First the YA breakfast session was deprived of its character, now the YC dinner music programme. What next?

MUSICA VIVA

(Auckland),

(Thefe‘is nothing new in the statement that the YC stations take up their distinctive programme function at 7.0 p.m.; nor has the type of programme they are intended to broadcast between 6 and 7 been changed, IYC’s dinner music is not being "deprived of its character’ but being restored to it after markedly diverging; but the process certainly does not lead to "the same type’ as 1ZB or 1YD. As for beginning Parsifal at 6.30 p.m., that is. accounted for by the exceptional length of a sbecial programme, not by forgetfulness of the normal YC function between 6 and 7,-Ed.)

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 872, 20 April 1956, Page 5

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MUSICAL PROGRAMMES New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 872, 20 April 1956, Page 5

MUSICAL PROGRAMMES New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 872, 20 April 1956, Page 5

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