THE MUSICAL CLIMATE
Sir--Your issue of September 20 contains a letter from Marion Cleave, I read it with feelings of resentment that such twaddle could be written by a professed lover of classical music, Our circumstances in childhood are undeubtedly responsible for the type of musical palate we possess. An Eskimo child is compelled to cultivate a palate for blubber, which of course would be quite revalting to an ordinary child. It seems that a compulsion ta listen only to musie of the jazz type will cultivate in a child a palate for this type of music; on the other hand, a child surrounded by an atmosphere of classical music is more or less bound to he a genuine lover of classical music, With regard to modern music, the less said the better; but I should like to suggest that it is hard to believe that any musically sane person could tolerate the muck after listenine to the hest. of heaven-insrired compositions of Handel, Mogart, Beethoven and others ta whom we owe eratefil thenks.
STEWART
SMITH
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 948, 11 October 1957, Page 11
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177THE MUSICAL CLIMATE New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 948, 11 October 1957, Page 11
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