To the Editor of the "Norri-Cunxa Dany News"
Gin,—Some years ago a director of of the British Broadcasting Corporation is alleged to have stated that the function of the body over which presided was not to give the public what it wanted but what the BBC, considered it ought te have in the way of broadcasting pro T cannot help wondering whether something of the same altitude has of Infected these responsible for arranging the programmes offered by the Municipal Orchestra, I am a regular concert-goer, and while 1 do not always agree with your eritle, T sup. et that he must at times find it dificult to cope with the quantities of frankly rather indifferent musie to which we have been treated during the fast few months, 'There has, for example, been a little too much Italian' music this, season and while Ttaly has admittedly produced several competent. com posers, I submit, as an iMustration of point, that Bach should be pre~ sented ds Bach—not an Italian orchestration thereof, It is true that ina recent offering' of this nature the original Bach was permitted to shine through the weller of sound Uke the skin of Cophetua's beggar maid through her rags, but, if 1 may express" myself, the rags were still there, Furlier to illustrate my point, may T say with what enthusiasm I hail the news conveyed in this morning's paper that for mext Sunday's concert three out of the four com= posers represented are apparently be Tatian, The Ruislans and the French have been all teo. sparingly represented. this scuson, Mozart we have had in the form of one of the more difficult violin. concertos "with a. soloist such distressing inexperience make the listener wonder whether the function of the—Municipal Orchestra is entirely understood by the Orchestra Committee, Surely this function fs to present good music with the best talent available—not to use the-orchestra as an experi mental medium for both performers and music, Let us please, therefore, have a little more music of accepted worth "more Beethoven, more Bach, more Debussy, more Mozart, more, tu fact, fof all the greater composers whose works most of us go to the Lyceum hear, Freano, Shanghai, Dee, 19,
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