Not so Bad!

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 24, 27 December 1929, Page 11

Not so Bad!

"Simple Simon," who conducts # daily column in the "Morning Post," ‘recently used this paragraph -"This morning I met a musical acquaintance, and I had to listen to a long discourse ou how the wireless had ‘killed tlie de: mand for good. music.’ Of course, I have heard and read it all a hundred times before. But it so happens that later in the day I tried to buy a seat for Delius’s ‘Mass of Life’ at the Queen’s Hall, and could not get one for love or money. "The house was sold out days ago,’ I was told at the box office man. Now when oné considers that that concert was organised by the B.B.C, themselves, that it was. broadcast, and therefore was available to almost everybody for nothing, and that. this is just one of a long series of first-. class concerts by the B.B.C. and their own splendid orchestra, all this talk, about the havoe wrought by wireless Seems to me to be sheer nonsense."