Mid Pleasures and Palaces
HE features entitled "Men and Music," presenting the lives of composers of well-known songs and the like, are a curiously mixed lot. On Sunday 10th for instance, 3ZR had one on Sullivan, while 3YA’s specimen depicted the progress down the last century of that greatest of all tear-jerkers, "Home, Sweet Home." But the early 19th century atmosphere went sadly to the producer’s head; everybody was called Emily or Caroline or Adolphus, and one could almost smell the plush. There was also another specimen of that curious tribe, the BBC Yankee-habitat, 19th century America, speech a dialect akin to Northumbrian. It was noteworthy that even the ghost of Sir Henry Bishop, the composer, seemed mildly surprised at the survival of his brain-child; and I fear I share his. sentiments.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 287, 22 December 1944, Page 8
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132Mid Pleasures and Palaces New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 287, 22 December 1944, Page 8
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