Musical Switches
| CAN’T understand why concert orch- " estras and brass bands are so addicted to that curious form of musical arrangement known as the "pot-pourri," or, in plebian terms, the "musical switch." A composer, without two ideas of his own to rub together to make a cerebral blaze, takes a couple of dozen ideas of some
famous composer of composers, and by means of interpolated modulatory passages and the forcing of themes into keys for which they were never intended, manages to regale the listening ear for seven minutes or so with a sort of musical haggis. The 4YA Concert Orchestra began a programme inauspiciously with one of these turiosities, a Fantasie on the Works of Brahms, into the very brief minutes of which were crammed; alas, most of Brahms’s loveliest melodies. I was pleased when the second orchestral item proved to be two movements from Sir Hamilton Harty’s "Irish Symphony." The charming and typically Irish sentiment of these movements was exactly the sort of thing which suits such an orchestral combination.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 288, 29 December 1944, Page 7
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172Musical Switches New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 288, 29 December 1944, Page 7
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