B.B.C. AND ORCHESTRAS
SIR,—It may be that in the last decade the most striking development of the Fine Arts has been the public desire for music of the first quality. For this we are largely indebted to the influence of the B.B.C. on public taste. Now their Director of Publicity tells us that one symphony orchestra can appease this_taste as well as half a dozen. Moreover, he says the reason the great musical public is not listening on the wireless to the London Philharmonic, the. London Symphony and other great orchestras is an argument extending over t5 months on a matter of a few pounds per performance. Mr. Agate has wisely suggested that this controversy should be arbitrated upon. In the meantime that splendid assembly- the B.B.C. orchestra must be overworiked, the radius of musical experi- ence reduced and a few pounds (on W falling currency) left with the bankers. The present, surely, is a special moment to make peace.—Yours,
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