COMMUNAL HISSING.
A CURE FOR NONSENSE
AUDIENCES TOO POLITE
“If I am asked, as. I have been, whether I have become acquainted with any new composer whoso works are likely to live, I can only answer frankly that 1 have not been so fortunate,” writes Sir Hamilton Harty, conductor of the Halle Orchestra of Manchester, in the Evening News. “When I. am trying to judge the value of new compositions, those I like and understand 1 perform; but those I dislike and understand I throw out; but those I dislike and yet don’t understand I keep in case I may learn by further studv to appreciate them. “Occasionally it is necessary toperform a work out of the latter category, and then one wishes that audiences in this country would applaud only what they like and understand. “It would be so beautiful to hear a whole audience hiss a work which one feels oneself, to be pretentious nonsense. We are too polite for that, as yet. Communal hissing is just as fine an ideal as communal singing; it is just a different path to tho same end I—real appreciation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 289, 10 November 1925, Page 2
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