NEW ZEALAND MUSIC
Sir-It was good to read up to date news about one of our most talented young composers in a recent issue of The Listener. I mean Edwin Carr. In the article, obviously by an overseas contributor, there was a significant reference to the music "by which we know him so well." But it would not be true to infer that we know Carr’s music at all well in New Zealand. It has taken five or six years for the overture "Maadi Gras" to get a performance in this country. Why, please? It seems to me that the NZBS needs to adopt a more vigorous policy towards New Zealand music. Instead of waiting and hoping for the good works to be sent in, then submitting the composers to the agonies of departmental procrastination, could the Service not appoint an officer whose sole job it should be to ferret out worthwhile works for broadcasting? Let him wheedle, cajole, entice, offer commissions and prizes-let him do anything, in fact, as long as he turns up with new music (or unplayed music), and when he gets it, make him have it played to us at once! There'll be a fascinating brouhaha for a while, I'll bet, but I’m sure it'll be worth it in the long run.
PETER
CROWE
(Wellington).
(i. Two previous conductors did not wish to perform the Mardi Gras-not "Maadi" Gras -overture; the present conductor wished to perform it. ii. If Mr. Crowe is able to show that the methods of the Service are fairly summarised in the words wait, hope and procrastinate, he may have the space to do so. iti. Mr. Crowe’s ferret is only to do, it appears, what the Service already does without Mr. Crowe’s knowing anything about it, except that the ferret is to be uniquely authorised and empowered to have his discoveries played "at once,"’ amid the wreck of programme plans.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 902, 16 November 1956, Page 5
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