Owen Jensen
T’S hard to realise that we must now get along without Owen Jensen. His departure for England removes our most engaging, lively and consistently reliable musical commentator, whose enthusiastic advocacy has ushered in some of my most enjoyable listening. Not only in the venerable Music Magazine, as guide through Mozart and Bach, as principal of Feminine Viewpoint’s School of Music, as panel-member, as _ interval speaker, but as brains of the Cambridge Music School, conductor, accompanist, and solo pianist, he has been a vital force in the shaping of our musical tastes. As a crusader against musical snobbery, as an apostle of the enjoyment of music, as advocate of contemporary music, and as a populariser of musical ideas, Owen Jensen must have done as much as anybody to help create a climate in New Zealand in which music is really beginning to flourish. And that air of off-the-cuff spontaneity, the result of years of exposition on the radio and in the lecture-room, which removed music from the realm of the long-haired, is a gift which only very few share. It is to be hoped he will return to us, like a giant refreshed. Even in the present hopeful state of music here, we can ill spare him-from the air, at least.
J.C.
R.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19570719.2.11.5
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 936, 19 July 1957, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
214Owen Jensen New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 936, 19 July 1957, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in