Rearrangement Suggested For Classical Music

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 35, 8 March 1935, Page 50

Rearrangement Suggested For Classical Music

To the Editor Sir,-I, am on the side of the classics, but I do not support the way in which the Broadcasting Board arranges our

classical hours of music. I am not far wrong if I say that the pick of classical music is played between 10 a.m. and midday, 2 p.m. and. 3 p.m., and 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. During these hours a great deal of the music is from the works of the old masters, and here we have the Strauss waltzes, and famous melodies of Lehar, with Bach, Mozart and Beethoven in lighter vein, People say this music is beautiful, and yet they condemn classica] music because they cannot enjoy the hour set apart specially for it. The chamber music should be kept to the evening’s programmes and regulated in such a way that there is an hour’set apart each week from the main stations. In this way our classical hours in the afternoon would indeed be melodious ones.-T am. ete.

MUSIC LOVER

Temuka.