A Middle Course Between "Highbrow" and Jazz

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 10, 15 September 1933, Page 14

A Middle Course Between "Highbrow" and Jazz

To the Editor. _ Sir,-Isn’t there a middle course between the broadcasting of "high-brow" musie and the treatment of jazz, ukulele items, and steel guitar strumming that would meet the interests of the lovers of each? Bor my own part, jazz and these stringed instruments are a torture to me, and in the interests of my nerves I always have to switch them off, but I am bound to recognise that to some -people they are the acme of enjoyable music. Could it not be arranged, then, as regards the YA stations, that one in each island should, on certain evenings, give itself up wholly to jazz and the metal strings, while the other two should give nothing but serious musie of one kind and another? In such case the "jazzites" could have a thorough blow-out of the stuff they prefer, while the lovers of classical music could enjoy standard symphonies, sonatas, operas, and the better class of compositions. Everybody could tune in to the class of items that suit him, and everybody should be satis-" fied. It seems to me that that would be an excellent ecompromise.-I am. ete..

MUSIC-LOVER

Takapuna, Auckland.