ST. ANTHONY'S CURSE
Sir,-Station 1YX seems to: have no luck at all with Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Haydn. On July 4 it was broadcast only to be interrupted by the 9 o’clock chimes when but three-quarters finished. Since then this station has avoided these mishaps by giving the longer works plenty of elbow-room, and keeping in reserve something brief to be slipped in if there is a spare moment before the chimes. On December 5 the Variations (beginning so far as I was concerned at Variation 3) finished in comfortable time, and we had Handel’s Arietta to fill in; but it was not until I heard the Arietta for the second time in 15 minutes, that I knew the identity of the work that had insinuated itself into the place of the Theme and Variations I. and II. Only a few weeks ago, 1YA managed to play the Theme and Variations right through in their true order without a hitch, so it is apparent that the curse is directed specifically
against
1YX.—SWINEHERD
(Aucke
land).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 288, 29 December 1944, Page 5
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176ST. ANTHONY'S CURSE New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 288, 29 December 1944, Page 5
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