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Sir-A_ first-rate performance of Verdi’s Il Trovatore was relayed from the Wellington Town Hall the other evening, At a moment of great dramatic interest when radio listeners, like the audience itself, must have forgotten all about Big Ben and Silent Prayer, the chimes boomed in and the organ arpeggioed out in the usual way. Are we getting into the same plight as Butler’s Erewhonians, and if we are isn’t. it time to do something? When a mere mechanical routine stultifies its original purpose in such a senseless way, it is Surely time to rise up and destroy the Machines before they overpower us. Or will we let a gramophone record of a clock on the other side of the world make fools of us all? For those who had thoughts of prayer at that moment, three other local stations were to be had for the twist of a knob.
MISERERE
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 268, 11 August 1944, Page 7
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153INTERRUPTED OPERA New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 268, 11 August 1944, Page 7
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