YOUTH CONCERT
Sir-The last Wellington Youth Caeneert to be under the direction of Mr James Robertson before he leaves the National Orchestra was a triumph in many -ways. Its major merit was he way it introduced at first hand the joys of orchestral music for even the young. A close watch of the young people attending showed that it delighted them, that they found by this means that symphonic music canbe fun, that it can be exciting. Let us hope that such beginnings will lead them on to
all the other things, the emotional delight, intellectual enjoyment, and so on, that resides in the world’s great orchestral music. The roots that James Robertson has thus set into that hopeful soil in New Zealand, its young people, have by his treatment of this plant a very good chance of growing into something great, which will do him adequate credit, and most importantly, enrich the lives of the recipients in a permanent way The Concert Management of the NZBS deserves our thanks, also, They turned out a really useful and informative printed programme, hugely successful in their aim of removing the mystery from the mundane matters of orehestra construction, and at the same time doing all that should be done to tell the young people about the background to the music. The standard set in this direction is a high one, and could, to our gest benefit, be adopted as the national minimum level to be reached by all similar material, whatever organisation was producing it.
G.C.
P.
(Wellington)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 948, 11 October 1957, Page 11
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257YOUTH CONCERT New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 948, 11 October 1957, Page 11
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