Thanks for the Lifebelt
HAVE a friend who attributes a relapse after appendicitis to the malign influence of a man in the next hospital bed who forced him to listen to ‘an entire evening of Debussy on the radio. Professor V. E. Galway, in his "Masterpieces of Music" from 4YA, was definitely not trying to convert such Philistines as this when he presented Debussy’s Quartet in G Minor; but even lovers of Debussy’s music would be thankful that the thematic illustrations are always so directly helpful in these programmes, After a fairly strict adherence to the Classical masters this year, it would have been difficult for listeners if Professor Galway had _ suddenly plunged them into the miasmic whirlpools of Impressionism and lefg them to sink or swim; but not he-here is the lifebelt! he cries, and throws us a couple of themes and a whole-tone scale. After a few gasps we find we are quite at home in the new element, and may even begin to enjoy ourselves. And for those, like myself, whose acquaintance with Debussy is mainly confined to his piano music, this quartet would be a revelation of a hitherto disregarded aspect of a unique composer’s music,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 287, 22 December 1944, Page 8
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200Thanks for the Lifebelt New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 287, 22 December 1944, Page 8
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