Semiramide, Part Panacea
E hear a good deal these days about the therapeutic qualities of music. The idea is not entitely new, of course. Wasn’t it in Rabelais’ Pantagruel that the Queen cured all manner of diseases without so much as touching the sick, but with a mere song? She played, it appears, on an organ whose bellows were of rhubarb, pedals of turbith: and’ the keys of scammony, and the leprous were all immediately cured. And of course in Italy those who were stung by the Tarantula were only cured by music.
It is most fitting therefore that the composer of the latest musical cure, even if it is only a half-measure, should be the Italian Rossini. I heard it the other night from 3YA and noted its tarantellaish strains, and its delightful effects upon the colic whims. The announcer called it the Semi-remedy Overture, and made quite certain of the name, both before it began and after it had finished.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 304, 20 April 1945, Page 8
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162Semiramide, Part Panacea New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 304, 20 April 1945, Page 8
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