program notes: better unwritten than unread

Abstract

If the story about the dowager who asked a New York critic which symphony Schubert wrote for people who never finished their program notes isn't true, it should be. Everybody knows something should be done about these nembutallic nuisances. But what? John T. Murphey's plan presented here may or may not be the answer, but it is surely more practical than Schubert's.