"Down With Opus No.—" Says Listener

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 39, 5 April 1935, Page 45

"Down With Opus No.—" Says Listener

To the Editor Sir,-From time to time there appear in your columus ebullitions concerning "this muck they call jazz.’’ Well, I like jazz, and I loathe’ all. classical music, 1 profess no knowledge of music, yet to ny mind the assortment of bigh notes. low notes, pauses, screeching voices and drums labelled classical music is ghastly. After listening to the classical hour from one of our big stations, I am reduced to a perspiring heap with tingling ears and wild eyes. Some will say, "It’s his own fault; he should listen in to another station." ‘But on a Sunday afternoon I am at the mercy of the YA stations-to me it is not a tender mercy, What could be nicer than modern jazz? What is more harmonious than the bings and bungs of Jack Hylton and his band, or the. tortured grunts of the Mills brothers? Nothing-except a pig sale at Addington on. a Wednesday afternoon. Jazz is music at ity best, rhythm and time is perfect, while the blending of the instruments is most harmonious. Let our slogan be: "Down with Opus No-dJanzz for ever !’--T am. ete...

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