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"SYMPHONIC IMPRESSIGNS OF FOUR OLD _ BRAZILIAN CHURCHES" (Mignone) was the main item on an NBC Symphony programme broadcast recently by -4YO; Toscanini was the conductor, and the work proved to be a most interesting and easily assimilated piece of programme music.
The question arises as to how far music can penetrate into the field of literature without becoming artificial When a work is called Nocturne, Barcarolle, or Berceuse, no listener can go far wrong in making the mental association with night, water, or sleep. But when music depicts actual things rather than emotions or emanations it requires 4 skilful composer if the work is not to degenerate into a_ ridiculous natureperody like The Canary or The Whistler and His Dog. I am not suggesting that Mignone comes anywhere near this category, however far he may be from the stern school of "absolutes." I thought . his church impressions masterly and also . musicianly, and the impression of church . bells was restrained; the only note of 1 parody was the touch where, for a
moment, the furious fortissimo pedalling of the typical church organist was briefly and cleverly suggested.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 314, 29 June 1945, Page 8
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