Wellington Symphony Orchestra

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 14, 18 October 1929, Page 6

Wellington Symphony Orchestra

Country. Listener's Appreciation HE hon. secretary of the Wellington Symphony Orchestra was recently gratified to receive from a rural listener a letter to the following effect: "Bnclosed please find a year’s subscription to your society. It was my intention to join up after your last concert was broadcast, but this slipped my mind until the announcement of tomorrow’s concert served as a reminder. Wishing you «very success, and thanking you’for the broadcasts." In acknowledging this subscription from the rural listener, the hon. secretary of the society wrote: "I desire to convey to you my committee’s sincere "appreciation of your thoughtfulness in remembering that, even though good music ‘over the air’ may appear to the uncultured to cost little to produce, comparatively speaking, the expense involved in conducting an up-to-date orchestra is enormous, and it is only by the help of our musically inclined . friends that it is possible for Welling-

ton to take a lead in the highest class of: orchestral music. . So far this season we have been blessed with good audiences, and it is the committee’s hope that the public will support. us further as our work becomes better known. I have added your name to my list of subscribers, and I trust that you will be able to enlist the sympathy of your friends who may be interested in our work, with the hope that they’ also will show their appreciation as you have done. Should you at time be in Wellington when any of our concerts are taking place, please do not fail to cqgmmunicate with me, and I shall be glad to grant you the usual subseriber’s concessions." | . Needless to say, similar action on the part of other rural listeners who are disposed to assist the cause of good music by joining the society will be greatly appreciated. ‘The objective of the society is of the highest character, and it needs all the support, financic] and otherwise, that can be given by the public and listeners in general. ©