JAZZ FOR SQUARES
A FEW more programmes like Leonard Bernstein’s illustrated lecture on jazz (Sunday Showcase) and writers of indignant letters to The Listener on jazz band cacophonies will become things of an ignorant past. Mr Bernstein, himself. an interesting composer, is the best kind of American speaker, witty, relaxed, cultivated, without a trace of that possibly unconscious note of patronising superiority I am not the only "colonial" to find galling in some BBC speakers. His exposition of blue notes, syncopation, improvisations and so on was just the kind of presentation to awaken the interest and enthusiasm of the indifferent or the prejuciced. It was tremendous fun to follow "Sweet "Sue" through its various transformations; and what could be more calculated to throw a new light on the blues than the revelation that they are written in iambic pentameter couplets, and the shaping of "The Dunsinane Blues" from two lines in Macbeth! I hope that this delightful programme gets a good airing, for those most in need of its message are surely not serious musicians, but Hit Parade devotees, and those who call all. "pops" music jazz.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 924, 26 April 1957, Page 30
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187JAZZ FOR SQUARES New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 924, 26 April 1957, Page 30
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