Overtures
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WHIM-WHAM
I CAN forgive the NBS For certain Sorts of Foolishness; I know that Others get a Kick From Stuff that only makes me sick! But who enjoys That witless Noise Which I for One will not excuseThe Tunes before the London News? HE News may go from Bad to Worse Reverse may pile upon Reverse; Or on the other Hand, it may Be brighter than for many a DayThe Overture We must endure. Is still the same, a senseless Mileien: All Feedle-dee and Tum-ti-tum! VAST human Tragedies ate played And human History is made On every Front from which we hear The Scraps of News that "hurt or cheer: If Music can’t Be celevant In some sad Fashion to the War, Then what the H-I is Music for? E do not hear of Funerals Accempanied by Madrigals, Or Dirges sung at Vottinge-Ne; Nor Jigs in Oratorio! « Then why, indeed, Do we precede Our Chronicle of World Events With Sounds that have so little Sense?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 141, 6 March 1942, Page 4
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167Overtures New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 141, 6 March 1942, Page 4
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