Broadcast Of Samoan
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Choruses
From Our Own Correspondent.
Papeete, Mar. 20.
THURSDAY is the red letter day of the week for radio listeners at Tahiti, and, we are sure, at all other islands of the Pacific; for at 9 p.m. of that day Samoa sings.
It rejoices our hearts to listen to those splendid choruses, which are the nearest thing we have heard, in over twenty years, to the old massed “himene” of Tahiti and Raiatea.
Samoa is setting a standard of fine chorus singing that the people of other islands would do well to emulate. The voices are good, the training is good and the music they sing is full of beauty.
We salute the musicians of our sister archipelago and offer our congratulations.
May we beseech them to abide with their native composers and not —as so many of their neighbours of other island groups have done —allow the pure beauty of their native music to become corrupted by the horrors from Tin Pan Alley.