RECOGNITION LACKING
Complaint By Conductor (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Oct. 29. In the eyes of some people a musician was given less recognition than a labourer, said Mr Rudolf Pekarek. who arrived yesterday from Australia to be guest conductor of the National Orchestra for the next two months. Music was a vocation rather than a profession, he said. He made this comment when asked today about a reported shortage of string players. Explaining he felt he had been misunderstood in an earlier interview on this point, Mr Pekarek said there was no shortage of soloists, but—“in the rank and file, the tutti players—yes.” The reason for the shortage, he said, was that rank-and-file musicians were not recognised in the community as they should be for the hard work they put into their performances. The shortage of rank-and-file musicians existed throughout the world, he said. It was only in the realms of chamber music the musician was accorded -the full recognition of an artist
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30275, 30 October 1963, Page 12
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163RECOGNITION LACKING Press, Volume CII, Issue 30275, 30 October 1963, Page 12
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