Weekly Flesh and Blood Band Programmes

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 30, 1 February 1935, Page 7

Weekly Flesh and Blood Band Programmes

To the Editor. Sir,-Monday, January 14-I sit and suffer the dialogue and cross-talk programme emanating from this station in lieu of its usual "Band Night." Surely in and around Christchurch there are sufficient bands to keep "alive" a band night once a week, regularly. Brass bands go over "big," and even the crack military band recordings are sometimes used are a poor swhbstitute. Let us have ‘flesh anid blood" at the other end instead of so much "canned" stuff -something that we can take an interest in-that "lives." An item that is "alive," although somewhat imperfectly. rendered, is preferable to one which is reproduced mechanically.

Occasionally a band may lapse or another supply some ‘items that are not quite in accord with our musical dignity but this is better than nothing. The Woolston Band, which gets such a good . hearing in the programme. organisation, is not always cdnsistent, for, at the recent Ballarat contest, did it not secure first in one selection and last in another? This appeal is merely an effort to reason out why. the maintenance of this weekly feature is taken so lightly.Iam, ete.,

WONDERER

Timaru.