No Anthems for Arne
[N his day Dr. Arne set most of Shakespeare's ' songs and it is not unlikely that these will out live all his other work, for in them he is truly himself, This spare man with a pinched expression in a velvet suit, as he has been described, was unlike so many of our great English composers, and was more at home in the green room than in the choir-school, He is perhaps the only English composer of any note who never wrote a church anthem. His failure in opera may have been accounted for because he would write his own words. A solitary anecdote tells of his trying to sell a horse and a comic opera to Garrick. The actor refused to buy, declaring that both were equally dull, But when Arne set Shakespeare’s songs he was on safe ground, -(" Poet and Composer," 2YA July 11.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 110, 1 August 1941, Page 5
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150No Anthems for Arne New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 110, 1 August 1941, Page 5
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