"WHO IS ROBBING US?"
Sir,-I have thought for a long time that broadcasting has not been doing its best for New Zealand listeners, Now I am convinced since reading the following in a book of reminiscences: "In every house, in every concert-room where music, more especially vocal music, is welcome, the name of Virginia Gabriel has long been and must a
J long remain a household word. Who has not been invigorated by the stirring melody of ‘Cleansing Fires,’ charmed by the measures of ‘Where Sparrows Build, enlivened by the animated Strains of ‘Message of the , Wind,’ touched by the sadder music of ‘My Lost Darling’? Who has not been haunted by the insinuating tones of ‘Only, ‘In the Gloaming, ‘Far Away in the West’?" Now, I who am dependent on the radio for my music have often been haunted by insinuations "In the Gloaming," but never invigorated by "Cleansing Fires." I can guess at "Lonely," "My Lost Darling" and "Weary" and "Only," but I feel that "Where Sparrows Build" might help me to look more kindly on those little feathered friends that will build in our veranda.
AGGRIEVED LISTENER
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 196, 26 March 1943, Page 3
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191"WHO IS ROBBING US?" New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 196, 26 March 1943, Page 3
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