The beginnings and development of a New Zealand music: The life ...

The first of these was Music Ho, the brainchild of Owen Jensen. 4
Published in Auckland, Music Ho ran from November of 1941 until
December of 1948. 5 It covered an important period in New Zealand music:
from the aftermath of the New Zealand Centennial Celebrations, it
followed the growing reputation of Douglas Lilburn, saw the birth of the
National Orchestra, and witnessed the beginnings of the Cambridge
Summer Music School.
The second periodical was the Wellington-based Third Stream.
Only four issues of this appeared (at monthly intervals from March of
1968 to June-July of 1968) before the periodical ceased publication.
Apart from covering the commercial release of Lilburn's The Return and
Elegy on record and publishing part of a series of articles by Lilburn
on electronic music, its life-span was too brief to be of any
significance to New Zealand composition.
In addition to these two periodicals, there have been a-number of
periodicals that have carried' regular articles on music in New Zealand.
The most notable of these are the weekly New Zealand Listener, the first
issue of which appeared on 30 June 1939, and the quarterly Landfall, the
first issue of which appeared in March of 1947.
Where these periodicals
have carried items of specific interest to the topic under study, they
will be discussed below.
Specifically on the topic of composition in New Zealand, there
exists a handful of 'scholarly articles' published in journals with
international circulations, a number of bibliographies, a few unpublished
texts of radio talks, and inevitably, a large number of non-scholarly
,
articles, features, previews, critiques and reviews published in local
papers or national magazines.
There exists one periodical devoted solely to composition in New
Zealand and that is Canzona, the official newsletter of the Composers
Association of New Zealand. With its first issue in September of 1979,
Canzona
superceded the CANZ Newsletter which had had its first full
6
4 Owen Jensen, at this time, was both a journalist for The New Zealand
Herald and the official accompanist for lYA radio station. From 1945
he was employed on the staff of the Adult Education Centre of the
University of Auckland as specialist music tutor. (Gillian Bibby,
Profile: Owen Jensen. Canzona vol.1 no.l, November 1979:27.)
5 Vol. I no.) to vol. 6 no.3.Up until October 1944 Music Ho appeared
monthly. After that time, it appeared bi-monthly. In later years,
Jensen continued the idea and spirit behind Music Ho in his regular
radio magazine programme of the same name.