Poor Man, Poor Man
HEN 3YA goes to the trouble of assembling a Schubert programme, part studio performance, part recordings,
it is too bad that one should be made to grit one’s teeth halfway through and grasp the arms of one’s chair while the announcer bumbles through a biographical note that surely was not intended to come in the middle of a programme when the composet had already been well introduced. One heard the deep breath, then the inevitable participial phrase: "Born in Lichtental, Austria, in 1797, Franz Schubert showed musical ability early . : ." with which so many of these well-worn notes begin; the equally inevitable misrelated participle: "Too poor to buy music paper, a friend supplied it,’ the condoling tone at "He was unmarried," and the positively morbid touch at the typhus fever sentence. And then one heard the Quartet in E Flet. And did one comprehend it the more?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 301, 29 March 1945, Page 8
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150Poor Man, Poor Man New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 301, 29 March 1945, Page 8
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