By Jove!
T would be interesting to know how many of the listeners who tuned in to 2YA on a Sunday afternoon to hear the "Aurora’s Wedding" ballet music by Tchaikovski were able to listen right
through. The item had a superimposed spoken part, which was intended to recreate the atmosphere of the ballet. There would be two kinds of listeners to this programme, those who had seen the ballet, and those who had not. Had I been one of the latter, I feel I would have gained little
from hearing that this personage or that was "pirouetting in the centre of the stage" or "doing an arabesque over to the left"; whereas I might have enjoyed the music had I been able to hear it properly. But in fact, I was one of those who do remember the ballet, and ‘I did not find this sort of thing either helpful or entertaining: "By jove, he leaped right into the air then! It’s marvellous," or "I don’t know what's happening now. Oh, I see, they’ve formed four circles . . . the circles are going round, faster and faster and FASTER. They MUST be getting giddy!"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 285, 8 December 1944, Page 8
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193By Jove! New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 285, 8 December 1944, Page 8
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