More Kicks for 2YA's Good Night Melody

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 9, 8 September 1933, Page 15

More Kicks for 2YA's Good Night Melody

To the Editor. , Sir,-Having duly approved of the "Radio Record" in its new guise, and paid my increased subscription without an audible murmur, might I have just a few lines to vent a trifling sense of injury which I’m sure all music-lovers must feel toward the Broadcasting Board. Tl admit that I am not like one of the old musical lecturers who used to go into fits of unrestrainable laughter whenevery heard a "humoureske" being rendered. But we know that if you listen to part of "The Moonlight Sonata" and close your eyes, you can see, Or hear, the little rippling wavelets dancing im the moonlight on the lake. Now, Mr. Editor, for the grievance, and such a grievance is is too! For the last four or five hundred nights, Sundays and Christmas days excepted, what have our closed eyes beheld? We have visualised an ancient and grey-haired dying organ-grinder turning and turning hopelessly but perseveringly at the handle -of his hurdy-gurdy, sometimes almost falling exhausted to the ground, but he simply won’t die. Surely it would be a perfectly simple matter for a select deputation of Wellington’s listeners to call at the studio, or the poard’s offices, and meet the person responsible for its institution, convey him to Mount Victoria, and hang him on the most convenient aerial mast, after which 2YA might possibly see its way to close down with a few bars of "Rule Britannia."’-I am, ete..

G.

FRASER

Ohura.