We Note with Pleasure
WO small incidents at Auckland stations in the past week have filled me with a golden glow of approval. Station 1YX fan a session which included a Haydn concerto played on the harpsichord by Wafida Landowska (why do we have this lovely thing so seldom?), fol-
lowed by his "Oxford" Symphony. This finished comfortably before 9.0 p.m. and to bridge the gap we were given neither Heinrich Schlusnus nor Elisabeth Schumann, nor yet Handel’s Arietta nor even Tchaikovski’s Andante Cantabile, but a Haydn minuet played by Wanda Landowska on the harpsichord. The second memorable incident was when the records were muddled at the beginning of a major ‘work and the announcer apolos gised and began it again. On other re+ cent occasions when similar accidents have happened, the announcer has pre+ tended to be as unnoticing as a robot, with the result that we have felt towards him the wild and impotent rage that fills us when we feed a penny into a stamp machine and it refuses to dise gorge a stamp. Yet he has only to behave like a human being, to say "Sorry, let’s begin again," and we melt at once, feeling that in his position even we ourselves might have .made a_ similar blunder.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 302, 6 April 1945, Page 10
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212We Note with Pleasure New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 302, 6 April 1945, Page 10
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