Dropscene Stuff
NN my younger days I was entranced by the "Danse Macabre" of SaintSaens. I even went so far as to buy a record of it, which was fatal. There
rarer rr ~ ae are some works which we can hear again and again, and the more familiar we are with their every note and nuance, the more delightful do they become-and the more strictly classical the music, the more aptly does this apply. But the
supernatural atmosphere of "Danse Macabre" on repeated hearings quickly reveals itself as a theatrically unnatural affair. For demoniac suggestion it fails entirely to compete, for instance, with such a work as Moussorgsky’s "Night on a Bald Mountain." Its clicking skeletal revels, its tolling midnight bells, its cockctow and cold dawning fail nowadays to rouse me to more than a gruesome chuckle.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 318, 27 July 1945, Page 9
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137Dropscene Stuff New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 318, 27 July 1945, Page 9
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