Wireless as the Ally of Music

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 34, 9 March 1928, Page 4

Wireless as the Ally of Music

APPRECIATION OF WELLINGTON 'S CHORAL UNION : CONDUCTOR

Mr. J. Bishop, the newly-appointed conductor of the Wellington Choral Society, who has recently arrived from Britain, frankly admits the immense value of radio broadcasting as an ally of music, and attributes much of the present position of British musical composers to the educative influence and popularising effect of broadcasting. English composers to-day, he said in an interview, could compare with any of the modern composers of European countries. This was attributable in some degree to the coming of wireless, which undoubtedly had done a great deal for music in England. An outstanding success in that field was the broadcasting of the famous promenade concerts from Queen’s Hall. On Monday evening, March 5, listeners from 2YA were privileged to hear a talk from Mr. Bishop. Mr. Bishop is by birth an Australian, but has resided for some years past in Britain. He is an accomplished pianist, and while in England gave numerous recitals in the provinces and smaller halls of London. He hopes to do a lot in New Zealand in the way of pianoforte recitals, and also to introduce some new works.