Unconscious Irony
HE New York announcer in a programme by the NBC Symphony Orchestra (Toscanini), recently broadcast over 3YA, saw fit to fill up a gap between Mozart’s "Magic Flute" Overture and Ravel’s "La Valse" with an outline history of the city of New York. Whether he was merely grasping at straws to tide him over a moment of silence, or spoke out of hearty civic pride, is hard to say, but the result was startling. After an optimistic account of the building of one civilisation came Ravel’s bitter and bewildered picture of the destruction of another-the end of the "Great Waltz" period in the violence of World War I. An effect of warning was thus produced which the compilers of the programme can hardly have intended.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 284, 1 December 1944, Page 8
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127Unconscious Irony New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 284, 1 December 1944, Page 8
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