TEN YEARS AGO
Sir,-The opening paragraph of "Ten Years with the Orchestra" must have caused no end of merriment among the old-timers of the orchestra and a goodly number of ex-members like myself. (1) We did not meet in St. Paul’s schoolroom but in the Studio of 2YA. (2) To the undying glory of Mr. A. Tyrer be it said that he flatly refused to play anything for the Governor-General whose request he rightly considered untimely. (3) The statement regarding this item is consequently entirely invented and stupid to boot. This sort of reporting, unworthy of The Listener, must be eliminated at all costs.
OTTO
HUBSCHER
(Auckland).
(The statement that the orchestra had played to the Governor-General when it first assembled was accepted in good faith from a member of the orchestra present on that occasion, and was corroborated by another foundation member, Further inquiries have shown that impressions from two separate occasions were telescoped into a single memory. The orchestra did not play part of "New World" Symphony to the Governor-General (as we said in our article); but the music was played that day-after the official visitors were gone. Also, the orchestra gave a Private concert for the Governor-General before its first public appearance. It is not difficult to understand how impressions from these two occasions coalesced. And a lapse of memory, after 10 years, is not quite the same thing as a "stupid invention."’-Ed. )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 902, 16 November 1956, Page 5
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236TEN YEARS AGO New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 902, 16 November 1956, Page 5
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