Music for the ages

Internal threats to the country’s sole classical music network are not new, but this version loomed as the most catastrophic. The international award-winning Concert network has faced numerous restructurings and downsizings over several decades.

RNZ management has made no genuine attempt to understand Concert and its offerings, or, shamefully, the interests and opinions of its substantial audience. Recent audience-survey findings that listeners prefer music to lengthy talk shows, for instance, have been misinterpreted disingenuously