RADIO PROGRAMMES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19571, 18 August 1933, Page 8

RADIO PROGRAMMES

SOME POINTED CRITICISM. By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, August 17. Pointed comments, on the art of listening and the general policy of the broadcasting stations were made by Dr. Cyril Jenkins, one of the judges at the forthcoming Wellington competitions festival who arrived to-day from England. In his opinion broadcasting in general is not educating people musically, but is presenting listeners with too much of what could be classed as bad art. , „ “Unfortunately during my travels, said Dr. Jenkins, "I found the standard of singing deplorably low. I have heard some excellent voices, but the performers lacked style. Style Is a matter of perfection of detail. The best dressed woman, like the best singer, is not the loudest. If bad soloists are allowed to broadcast they are more than a mere nuisance; they constitute a menace to art. Because they have the approval of the executive of broadcasting stations the public accept them as models, and as a result the general taste of listeners falls. It is difficult to conceive that an administration of experienced musicians could perpetrate some of the anomalies that seem to be well established in some young countries. The majority of the programmes in these days seems to be made up of jazz, detestable croonings, and other vulgarities, therefore it is impossable to conceive that much progress will be made educationally with this wonderful new and sensitive medium of giving music to the public.”