CALLING ALL BANDSMEN
Sir-I wish to compliment you on your article "Calling All Bandsmen" in The Listener of May 11. The information given by Dr. Wright was concise and informative. The snobbishness that he says is not as marked here as in England will come as a sufprise to some people who tend to regard brass band music as somewhat low brow. If they would listen to the music that is played by a band in the light of a brass ensetnble instead of comparing them to a symphony orchestra they will enjoy the beauty of tone that Dr. Wright speaks about. We know the failuree @f brass bands in certain types of m@sic, but if such conductors as Sir Adrian Boult and Sir Malcolm Sargent do not consider it degrading to conduct brass bands, why should lesset beings, in their ignorance, brush this type of music aside? There aré good and bad brass bands just as there afte good and bad orchestras. I am sufe all brass band enthusiasts will look fofwafd with pleasure to this programme.
N. H.
YOUNG
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 877, 25 May 1956, Page 5
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182CALLING ALL BANDSMEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 877, 25 May 1956, Page 5
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