MUSICAL MARBLE-CAKES
Sir,-As a quite infrequent listener, I have heard from Auckland stations in the past very few weeks the following oddities which, taken together, seem to show a systematic attempt either to test the acuteness with which we listen, or to shatter What little is left of our sense of security in this fifth year of war. 1. A considerable portion of Brahms’ First Symphony interpolated into Cesar Franck’s D Minor Symphony in a Cesar Franck session. 2. Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto interrupted without apology .by. a group of Spanish folk songs, and continued later when we had given up hope. . 3. A glowing eulogy of a Mozart violin concerto with details of Mozart’s violin virtuosity and Joachim’s cadenza followed by what was most obviously a piano concerto — this sounded like Mozart, and it was in a Mozart session, but the announcer was terribly shy about it, and passed right on to the next item, so I shall never know. _4. .Two Beethoven Piano . Sonatas (Op. 26 and Op. 53) played not quite simultaneously but the next best thing, ie. one side of the record of one and then one side of t’other, and so on. I anxiously awaited the name of this new Beethoven cocktail, but once again the announcer was sphinx-like, I set out with a firm intention of speaking mind about this, but now find my co would be unprintable -but not, I am sure, so unprintable as
Beethoven’s.-
BAFFLED
(Auckland)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 257, 26 May 1944, Page 5
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244MUSICAL MARBLE-CAKES New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 257, 26 May 1944, Page 5
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