GOLDEN AGE OF OPERA
Sir,-Your contributor J.C.R. is quite right. The Golden Age of Opera was one of the most popular of YC programmes, and it will be missed. I do not, however, hope, as he does, that someone will have another idea by
which we will hear some of the discs again. I most earnestly hope that the session will be brought out. of retirement, that instead of compromise we will have the same session continued, the mixture of good, bad and indifferent as before. I unserstand that the session had to be closed because of pressure of work on those enthusiasts who put the programmes together. It should surely be a matter of concern to senior officials of the NZBS that they are unable to arrange schedules which will permit their staffs to satisfy a very real and intelligent demand from the public. It should be pointed out that the programme was an Auckland one, but the audience was national; and that in no other programme has there been such a valuable participation by listeners who made their collections available to the country at large. It will be a reproach to the Service if The Golden Age stays off the air. It would, moreover, be fitting in these admittedly unhappy circumstances to have the older artists appear again in spite of the supposed end of their careers. After all, they seldom hesitated to come out of retirement in response to popular demand.
KENDRICK
SMITHYMAN
(Auckland),
(The series is to be reorganised and presented nationally. As programme sources are not unlimited, recordings previously played will be heard again, with new ones.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 899, 26 October 1956, Page 5
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272GOLDEN AGE OF OPERA New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 899, 26 October 1956, Page 5
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