THE MUSICAL CLIMATE
Sir -I would like to point out to the few potential crusaders who may possibly rally to Mr Austin’s banner that there are doubtless as many lovers of Jazz (please spell it with a capital) in this young country of ours as there are lovers of the classics, chamber music, and other YC types of music. And indeed, as we all pay for our listening pleasure through the nose, why is it that Mr Austin feels so hardly done by? As for his opinions on the debasing of the youth of our country by portraits in the jazz style on Listener covers and elsewhere-rubbish! Does Mr Austin reason that a long-hair art piece will uplift and "purify" the "listening masses"? If so, then he is sadly astray and further should confiné his criticisms to music in its lyric form and not meddle with editorial criticism and the little space that is being given to what is truly called Pop music!
DAVE
WALPOLE
(Mount Maunganui)
(Abridged ~Ed: )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 953, 15 November 1957, Page 11
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169THE MUSICAL CLIMATE New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 953, 15 November 1957, Page 11
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