New Carols
S one year melts into the next, there is one mixed blessing which seems always with us, the presence of carollers. Weare privileged to hear the tale of Good King Wenceslas, together with half-a-dozen other favourite tunes, painfully and slowly strangled by peripatetic brass bands and inadequate church congregations. Into every spare half-minute of the radio programmes, also, carols are crammed, until we wish, by the time Christmas Eve has arrived, that we may never again hear another . Traditional Christmas Carol. It was therefore delightful and surprising to be given the Coventry Carollers from 4YA, and to find in a selection of twelve carols only three well-known titles. Moreover, the inclusion of a Polish, a Czech, and a French carol gave the recital something of a different flavour. But alas! the time of the carollers’ appearance was during the half-hour before midnight, and unless listeners knew especially that it was to. be broadcast I fancy there would be many who would. miss it entirely.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 290, 12 January 1945, Page 6
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166New Carols New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 290, 12 January 1945, Page 6
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