WHERE ARE GILBERT AND SULLIVAN?
Sir,-I sympathise with your contributer "Iolanthe," but secretly rejoice over the reason for his misery. To have to endure the agony of "the complete operas of Gilbert and Sullivan" would be almost unbearable. Even the veiled cloak of nationalism with which he shrouds his appeal, and which seems to be the motive of his curious request, does not deter me from suggesting that " Enough is as good as (or better than) a feast." By all means let us have judicious doses of Gilbert and Sullivan for those who are still interested in music of the "hurdygurdy" type. Such an ingrained tradition will, no doubt, take some considerable time to rectify. Wagner "came out" of Germany; so did Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and most other kings of composition. Let us keep them with us until we have reached that happy state of enlightenment when the intrusion of any suggestion of nationalism into the sphere of music will be unthinkable.
HANS
SACHS
(Melling) _
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 134, 16 January 1942, Page 4
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165WHERE ARE GILBERT AND SULLIVAN? New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 134, 16 January 1942, Page 4
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