Suggested "Black List" For Recordings

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 43, 3 May 1935, Page 44

Suggested "Black List" For Recordings

To the Editor, . ; Sir,-Your leading article concerning the repetition of records was most il-

luminating. Many thanks for the information it contained. The position, then, remains the same, and it behoves us to try to discover some means of overcoming it. It may be a case of "Fools step in," but it is often noticed that in problems of business an outsider With unclouded niind can offer solutions of merit. I think therefore that it is up to listeners to offer solutions .for the bogey of record repetition if they are interested. How would it do for a "black list" to be introduced? At the end of each month, any Jisten‘ers Who have: been. bored by any records, and have troubled to write down their names, could send the list to the programme organiser. If these lists were correlated, I should imagine that the finished "black List?’ would be some help to him in weeding out unwanted records. If the organiser is a man who can "walk with Bach nor lose the common touch" (apologies to Kipling), he will gradually be able to raise the level of "New Zealand’s musical appreciation. Indeed this is already happening. ¥rom some létters in the "Radio Record". it appears that many people think that lovers of classical music dislike dance and light music, I venture to say that this is rarely so, but that their discrimination between passable light music and bad light niusic is more sharply defined than that of the light music lover. Although a.lover of classical’ and modern musie I often switch off such mnusi¢c in favour of dance or other light music. After all, "Variety’s the very spice of life," and nowhere more ¥ than jin music -T am. ate.

J. O. H.

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