Youth Concerts
| \V HEN Sir Bernard Heinze was here he showed great interest in our youth concerts. In Australia he had had a lot to do with starting them off. "The first youth concerts» we held produced an incredible sequence of events," he said. "The initial concert in Sydney was an explosion. Then the young people became so vociferous in their demands for more that providing the
concerts became slightly embarrassing. In Sydney and Melbourne as soon as the offices closed, young people would sit through the night in queues that tailed more than half-way around an office block. "We presented a plan to the ABC which . stinulated
a=." _ | that the prices should be the same all | over the house, so that the more hand- } somely privileged financially should not score over those less well-off. We thought a florin should be able to buy the best seat in the house. "The young people were invited to decide what they wished to hear, who should conduct and which soloists they wanted. This plan has had to be modified slightly because we now have three audiences for each programme, and the best part of a thousand subscribers in both Sydney and Melbourne, and the same proportion holds in the other States. These concerts have had an incredibly stimulating effect on the demand for good music."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 900, 2 November 1956, Page 30
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223Youth Concerts New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 900, 2 November 1956, Page 30
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