Oh! For the Good Old Tunes
RECITAL of Debussy songs comes our way but rarely. We are familiar enough with this composer’s piano works; and three times lately we have had what an acquaintance of mine insists upon referring to as the Torpedoed Cathedraltwice performed as written, for piano, and once conducted by Leopold Stokowski in an unfortunate orchestral arrangement by that same conductor, an
afrangement which seemed merely to make confusion worse confounded. Meda Paine’s recital of Debussy songs from 4YA was unusual and beavtiful, including "Lia’s Air,’ "Romance," and an exquisite little fragment, "Mandoline." It is over thirty years since Debussy’s death, time enough for us to be familiar with his intimate impressionism; but we hear his songs so seldom that they strike the ear as. something in a strange unearthly medium, far removed from the familiar style of Schubert and Schumann. Similarly, although its audience would be confined to a few connoisseurs, a little of "Pelleas and Melisande" would provide a welcome contrast to the too-familiar scores of "Faust" and "Trovatore."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 308, 18 May 1945, Page 14
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174Oh! For the Good Old Tunes New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 308, 18 May 1945, Page 14
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