New Dance Music Releases Not Broadcast

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 30, 1 February 1935, Page 6

New Dance Music Releases Not Broadcast

To the Editor. Sir-It did my heart good to see "Modern Dance Lover's" letter, which I sincerely hope will be noted by the. Broadcasting Boar d-especiaHy the reference to the present dance programmes. You have explained that the board cannot give- you these programmes in time for publication, as they wish to include new releases af the last minute. But records months and often years old are the rule. and worse still, Continental polkas and marches (they call them foxtrots) predominate to an alarming extent. The classical programmes, the best arranged on the air, are drawn up by experts, sO why cannot somebody with a knowledge of dance music be obtained? May I make a suggestion which I hope will receive attention. On Sunday afternoons, one of the few times when we can hear complete major works, these are presented at 2YA, 3YA and 4YA at 3p.m., with the result that we can hear only one. Surely common sense dictates that they be given at different times from’ each station.I am, ete., (

REPEAL

Dunedin.

(Although this correspondence is closed these letters were unavoidably held over from last week.-Dditor.]