Sir.-In your issue of August 23, Richard Hoffmann lets the cat out of the bag-"NEW MUSIC IS NEVER BEAUTIFUL," he tells us-which, in part, we knew before, of course; the only mistake in his epochal pronouncement being the word "music." He should have said-"new noise is never
beautiful." The dictionary definition of music is: "Harmonious combination of sounds"; consequently, the term is obviously out of place in connection with the hideous noises which are characteristic of most modern composition. Logically, what is not beautiful must be ugly, and every person who attempts to glorify ugliness in any department of art or literature does a grave disservice to mankind.
L. D.
AUSTIN
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 943, 6 September 1957, Page 11
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