Musical Renaissance

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 17, 7 November 1930, Page 7

Musical Renaissance

Due to Broadcasting PUBLISHED in a contemporary is an ’ interview with Mr. Carl Atkinson, well known in the music world of New Zealand for his lecture recitals at 1YA and. as musical consultant for Messrs. Howies Ltd., of Auckland. Musie making and _ the pleasures of listening were once the privilege of the wealthy. To-day they are within the reach of all-to-morrow they will be as much a part of our dgily lives as eating and sleeping. And ~%e most important factor that is "speeding the coming of the "Musical enaissance"’ is the gramophone, says Mr. Atkinson. It is fifty years since the gramophone came into ‘existence, and within the second half of that half-century the interest in music in New Zealand, and, indeed, throughout the world, has outgrown all previous conceptions. Interestingly recalling the old-time "musical evening," Mr. Atkinson remarks: Then came the gramophone, the player-piano, the radio, and finally the astonishing vitaphone. Most musicians and musi¢e lovers rejoiced upon the discovery of these marvellous means of vreserving musical genius and disseminating master interpretations, As Mr, Atkinson says, the gramophone, and of more recent years the radio receiving set, are materially con- * ~tributing to improved musical taste. With his remarks Mr. .A. R. Harris, General Manager of the Radio Broadcasting Company, heartily agrees. He opines that even the most blase listener must often experience a thrill as he hears a recording, made perhaps a year ago in Berlin, London or New York, when an orchestra -sat down and played, and now is heard, through means of gramophone and radio, by people living in cities, towns and villages and on the most out-back farms in every land throughout the world. The gramophone cabinet has. eclipsed Pandora’s box. ‘