French As She is Spoke
HARLES MARTIN does not. often broadcast from 4YA these days, and it was delightful to hear his short but interesting recital of piano works recently. Included were Scarlatti, Debussy, Moszkowski, and Palmgren, the latter a composer known for only one or two of his works, when there are dozens of lesser-known, charming. pieces of his crying out to be heard. Speaking of that lovely imaginative tone poem of Debussy’s, "La Cathédrale Engloutie," which was heard in this programme, wouldn’t it be a relfef if someone devoted a little time, trouble, and research to an adequate translation of its title, so that we could be spared the frequent mispronunciation of it over the air and in musicianly -convefsation? One announcer recently made an appalling shot at it, and after enunciating slowly but correctly "la Cathédrale’-paused, and stuttered "Enn-glay-gloo-teee!" French scholars (I am not one) tell me, as they do in so many other cases, that there is no perfect translation, such adjectives as buried, sunken, submerged, drowned, engulfed, and so on, being inadequate and unpoetic. Better such substitutes, however, than an entire inability to understand what the announcer is talking about!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 291, 19 January 1945, Page 9
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195French As She is Spoke New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 291, 19 January 1945, Page 9
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