WIDER PROGRAMMES
Suggestion to Musical Societies Suggestions that musical societies might adopt a broader programme in their concerts were made by Mr. L. A. G. Barrett, the recently-appointed secretary and organiser of the Royal Christchurch Musical Society, at the society’s annual meeting. “Conditions of life and community thought are changing daily," Mr. Barrett said. “If we fail to adapt ourselves to them we fall behind. If members must go on the stage at public or semi-public concerts (and there is every reason why they should) I suggest that they might enjoy just as keenly music of a type to which an increasing attendance of the public might more readily enjoj’ listening. “It appears to me that it is not so much what is sung as how it is sung that matters Some soloists pin their faith to the severely classical because they fear the competition of, and comparison with, good gramophone records: but I would not seriously suggest that the society need have any such fear.”
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 138, 6 March 1936, Page 12
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166WIDER PROGRAMMES Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 138, 6 March 1936, Page 12
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