Poor Stuff

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 21, 4 December 1936, Page 49

Poor Stuff

Hopeful (Auckland) writes: Some months ago I took this:note from one of your issues: "Music is the loving language of a man’s mind as he ponders realities."

nn Why then should people who have bought an expensive radio, and who pay an annual license in the hope of hearing good music, have their herves irritated, their tempers ‘ruffled and their digestion injured by being presented with those shoulder-swaying, knee-bending, tuneless ditties which by no stretch of imagination can be ac. cepted as singing, chanting or even intoning? During the past twelve months I have spoken to dozens of listeners about this and have not heard one word

vot approval. I have long expected to see: some of our musical authorities voice this general disapproval. Though by no means a musical expert, I can appreciate the statement quoted above, and am heartily tired of. this cheap . foreign rubbish. Probably some one will,say, "If you | de not like these records you can switch, off.":. True; we do now switch off when this ‘stuff comes along. If those who talk like that paid for a good article and received a poor one, would they be satisfied to throw the poor article away and say nothing about it? Of course if the majority of listeners appreciate this sort of thing, we who are only irritated by it must grin ‘and bear it-but do they?